Amze emmons biography
- Amze Emmons is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking.
- Amze Emmons is a Philadelphia-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a background in drawing and printmaking.
- Amze Emmons is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking and drawing.
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Amze Emmons
“...there is a relationship to the history of the printed image that connects all visual cultural material.”
Amze Emmons is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA). His approach to color is often strangely playful, and his approach to printmaking is experimental, often using chance and craft to trouble traditional expectations. Amze’s distinctive depictions of mundane objects and depopulated, urban landscapes are often created by combining several printmaking techniques with hand-coloring. Currently Amze is working on a series of prints putting the precarious quality of drawing into tension with the authority of the printed mark.
Amze’s mid-career retrospective, Pattern Drift: Cityscape is up through April at the Ross Museum of Art at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. In addition, he is completing a new suite of prints withFlying Horse Editions at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
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Amze Emmons: Playing the Grid
Philadelphia-based artist Amze Emmons describes his exhibition Playing the Grid as a “confabulated game room that—along with the accompanying publication A City Guide—is an invitation to improvise, wander and play. It’s a playful love letter to Philadelphia with its complicated history and ever hopeful future.” On view in BWA’s Glass Gallery from January 8 to March 14, 2024, Playing the Grid presents drawings, prints, paper craft, and other elements that invite the show’s visitors into Emmons’ creative process—most specifically, his “decades-long ‘field work’ wandering the city and noticing the public phenomena Philadelphia endlessly provides.”
Emmons created an accompanying takeaway publication, Playing the Grid: A City Guide, with graphic-designer Scott Cole to help exhibition visitors and others pursue their own Philadelphia “fieldwork”—to “invite the reader to wander the city and notice things they hadn’t noticed before,” Emmons explains. Fireball Printing produced several thousand copies, which will be available at BWA and distributed
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Amze Emmons
Ross Art Museum to Host Online Talk March 24
DELAWARE, Ohio – You’re invited to join the Ross Art Museum at 7 p.m. March 24 for an online conversation with museum exhibitor and Ohio Wesleyan University alumnus Amze Emmons.
Emmons, OWU Class of 1996, will discuss his current exhibit “Pattern Drift: Cityscape,” his artmaking, and his journey since graduating from Ohio Wesleyan. The hourlong conversation will be hosted by Erin Fletcher, executive director of the Ross.
“Emmons is an important contemporary printmaker who balances technical virtuosity with an awareness of social and political issues,” Fletcher said in announcing the exhibition. “His work focuses on the built environment and the way it connects and unites us. He has a collage aesthetic that brings temporary housing structures in conversation with the vibrancy of a city sunset or connects television sets and lurking piles of debris. It is both serious and has a wonderful sense of play.”
As an Ohio Wesleyan student, Emmons majored in fine arts and minored i
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