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November 15, 2007- December 22, 2007
Reception: November 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sarah Amos
Reeves Contemporary
535 W 24th StSarah Amos opens a show of large-scale works on paper at Reeves Contemporary on November 15th, with an opening reception between 6-8 p.m. The exhibition continues through December 22nd; note, the gallery will be closed for the Thanksgiving holidays from November 22 –24th. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10 – 6 p.m.
Sarah Amos is an Australian master printmaker who now maintains a studio in Northern Vermont. In this new series of large-scale, murals, she employs a process of richly layered collagraph and carborundum printmaking techniques punctuated by detailed over-painting. What results are vibrant and dynamic images that echo both contemporary and ancient cultures.
Australia’s physical landscape has become a central focus in Amos’ work. Marks, patterns, and colors overlap and layer, forming intricate large-scale imagery. Her colors recall the Australian desert, while dots and lines clearly echo indigenous mark making. Cultural geographers argue that landscape is experienced physically, through a complex conflation of senses including sight, sound, touch, social structure and experience. With their scale and the layered tactility of their imagery, these works epitomize an embodied experience of landscape.
“Our notion of landscape is changing,” she writes. “We tend to have either an idealistic or disenfranchised view of our environs, yet, in reality, due to climatic conditions, our landscape and our relationship to it is under severe change.” Amos’ process, in both its stages of accumulative research and its physical application, might be seen as a personal response to the collective anxiety surrounding the tension between man and the landscape.
After she immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s, Amos became the Master Printer and Director of Vermont Studio Center Press in Northern Vermont for ten years. This year, she was invited to Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia to be The International Visiting Artist-Fellow for two months. Currently, Amos is a visiting Professor in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. She also collaborates with the Great River Arts Institute as faculty for their printmaking sessions in Bellows Falls, Vermont (greatriverarts.org).
Her works appears in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States and in Australia and galleries on both continents represent her. Most recently, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park included over eight large-scale murals in the 2007 Annual exhibition.
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