Sarah Amos, Black Tausi, 2016. Collagraph and thread on felt, 66 x 78 inches.
Exhibition Walk-through with Sarah Amos and Barbara Takenaga
Friday, November 22, 2019
6:00pm - 7:00pm
FREE
Please join CUE on Friday, November 22nd at 6:00pm for a public walk-through of Chalk Lines with artist Sarah Amos and curator Barbara Takenaga. Amos, a Tamarind Master Printer, works with large-scale collagraph prints on felt, built up in layers and adorned with hand-stitching and appliqué. In this new body of work, each print holds a world of dynamic textures, patterns, and abstract marks that are simultaneously familiar and imagined, conjuring tactile environments constructed from the assembled surfaces and images.
Amos and Takenaga will be available for questions after the walk-through.
This event will be streamed on Facebook Live.
Sarah Amos has been making large multi-media collagraph prints for over two decades. Originally from Australia, Amos came to the US to study lithography at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she became a Master Printer. She originally obtained her BFA in Printmaking in Australia and has an MFA from the University of Northern Vermont. Amos works and lives both in Vermont and Australia, where she also teaches from her home studio year-round and has been an alternate adjunct professor at Williams College, Bennington College, and Dartmouth College since 2001. Amos has completed artist residencies at the Santa Fe Arts Institute, New Mexico; the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland; and the Stichting Kaus Australis Residency Program, Rotterdam, Holland. Her work is in the collections of Time Warner, NY, NY; Alliance Capitol, NY, NY; the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT; the Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN; and the Prudential Insurance Company, Boston, MA. In 2014, Amos was awarded the Joan Mitchell Independent Artist Grant for Painting.
Barbara Takenaga is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at a variety of institutions including MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Space/42 of the Neuberger Museum, New York, NY; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE; and a 20-year survey at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, in 2017, curated by Debra Balken and accompanied by a book published by DelMonico|Prestel. Her work is included in the collections of the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, PA; the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, among others. She is represented by DC Moore Gallery in NYC and her prints are published by Shark's Ink and Wingate Studio.
CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. Service dogs are welcome. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single stall bathroom in the gallery. The space is not scent-free, but we do request that people attending come low-scent. The closest wheelchair accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square Station.