Sarah Amos, Contemporary Abstract Landscape Monotype Painting Sarah Amos, 1995

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Sarah Amos(Contemporary Australian/American) Untitled Monotype, 1995 Monotype or painting on paper 12 x 9 inches on a 22.25 x 15 … Read more Sarah Amos(Contemporary Australian/American) Untitled Monotype, 1995 Monotype or painting on paper 12 x 9 inches on a 22.25 x 15 inches sheet size, Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop This appears as a abstract expressionist landscape or seacape. A lovely, moody, piece Sarah Amos, originally from Australia, lives in Vermont, and maintains an active International and National exhibition schedule. Sarah left Australia, after receiving a BFA in Printmaking from RMIT, to attend the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico. In 1992 she became a certified Tamarind Master Printer in Lithography working with Joyce Kozloff and Barton Lidice Benes . In 1998 Sarah became the Master Printer for the Vermont Studio Center Press until 2008 and during this time she also received an MFA from the University of Northern Vermont. Sarah has been an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth, Williams and Bennington Colleges teaching Printmaking and Drawing since 2007. She has led workshops on monoprint collagraph printing techniques with Joel Janowitz. Amongst her inspirations in her work are El Anatsui, Peter Doig, American Outsider Artists, Vermeer, Hokusai’s ghost prints, Kabuki Theater, African ritual dress and sacred objects. She is passionate about textiles from around the world, soft sculpture and African masks and architecture. This was done with Garner Tullis of Experimental Press. Tullis worked with many masters including John Walker, Sean Scully, Friedel Dzubas, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, William Wiley, and others. She was included in the show A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art. Painters, sculptors, photographers, of different races, from diverse ethnic and cultural traditions. Artists in the exhibition are: Blanka Amezkua, Sarah Amos, Helene Aylon, Siona Benjamin, Zoë Charlton, Sonya Clark, Annet Couwenberg, Lalla Essaydi, Judy Gelles, Sharon Harper, Julie Harris, Fujiko Isomura, Tatiana Parcero, Philemona Williamson, Flo Oy Wong and April Wood. The Feminist Art Project. Selected Solo and Group exhibitions include: CUE Art Foundation NY (2019), BCA, Vermont (2019), Huntington Museum, WV (2019), ICA San Jose (2018), Flinders Lane Gallery, Australia (2017), Cynthia Reeves Projects Mass MOCA, Massachusetts (2015), Fischer Museum USC, Los Angeles CA,(2012), Penn State University (2011), Monash University, Australia (2011), Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe NM( she showed with Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jennifer Bartlett, Isabel Bigelow, Grisha Bruskin, Dirk De Bruycker, Bernd Haussmann, Hunt Slonem, Ron Slowinski and Manolo Valdes) , La Trobe University, Australia( 2009), Rutgers University, New Jersey (2009), Victorian College of The Arts, Australia (2007), Gallery 101, Australia (2007), Reeves Contemporary, New York (2007), Weatherspoon Museum, North Carolina, (2006), The Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro VT (2003), The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington VT(2003), The University of Minneapolis, Minnesota (2001), The University of Hawaii (2001), The University of Maine (2001), The Amos Eno Gallery, NY (1998), and the University of New Mexico (1992). Sarah has been awarded various grants and fellowships including The Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2014), Artist in Residence Fellowship, The Joan Mitchell Foundation New Orleans (2020), The Walter Gropius Master Artist Series, Huntington Museum West Virginia (2019), Santa Fe Arts Institute (2006), Balling Len Arts Foundation, Ireland (2001), and Klaus Australis in Rotterdam, Holland (2002). Sarah Amos’s work is part of the following public and private collections: The Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, NH; V.R.C, Flemington, Melbourne, Australia; La Trobe University Museum, Melbourne, Australia; Time Warner, Permanent Collection, New York, NY; Alliance Capitol, New York, NY; The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY; Dartmouth - Hitchcock, Permanent Collection, NH; The Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT. See less