AMZE EMMONS

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For more details about Amze Emmons' work contact Eli VandenBerg, Gallery Store Manager - 215 735-6090 x1 or email evandenberg@printcenter.org

Amze Emmons + Philippe Jean
Saturday, March 15, 2:00–3:00pm

Emmons’ work depicts lonely, isolated spaces balanced by a lightness of line and color. His current body of work, although inspired by disaster images from The New York Times, has a strong sense of meditative beauty. Philippe Jean, Director of Works on Paper, Inc., recently curated a solo show of Emmons’ works.

Amze Emmons Fugative Parameter

Amze Emmons Full Exposure

Amze Emmons Grid Monument

Amze Emmons Pay Attention to Portent

Amze Emmons states that his work explores “refugee architecture in an age of collapsing communities, increasing diaspora and concern for personal security….The ability to be anywhere in the world in a few hours is collapsing our existing sense of place and community. With greater frequency, our relationships towards each other and our world are mediated by virtual moments, heightened alerts and flight schedules. This nomad consciousness contributes to the sense of transience and dislocation so common within my generation. Our mass transit systems, airports and the patterns of refugee migration are artifacts of a larger narrative unfolding by the minute on the media stream of your choice.”

Emmons was born in 1974 in New York. In 1996 he received his BFA from Ohio Wesleylan University and his MFA from University of Iowa in 2002.  He has participated in exhibitions since 1995 in the USA, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.  He is in collections at Ohio Wesleylan University; University of Iowa Print Archives; Bradley University; the Amity Art Foundation and Tama Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan