Emma Amos : Color Odyssey • Hardcover Exhibition Catalog

Emma Amos: Color Odyssey

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2021. Hardcover. 179 pp. + illustrated credits pages. Red half cloth over pictorial boards with titles stamped in black to spine and front. Illustrated endpapers. Color plates throughout.

Edited and with an essay by Shawnya Harris. Essays by LaToya Ruby Frazier; Lisa Farrington, Laurel Garber, Kay Walkingstick; and Phoebe Wolfskill.

Near Fine

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Emma Amos: Color Odyssey accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from January 30 through April 25, 2021, before traveling to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute from June 19 to September 12, 2021, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 9, 2021, to January 2, 2022. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Emma Amos (1937 2020) was a distinguished painter and printmaker. She is best known for her bold and colorful mixed-media paintings that create visual tapestries in which she examines the intersection of race, class, gender and privilege in both the art world and society at large. The catalogue includes essays by Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, the curator of the exhibition and the editor of the catalogue; Lisa Farrington of Howard University; artist LaToya Ruby Frazier; Laurel Garber, Park Family Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; artist Kay Walkingstick; and Phoebe Wolfskill, associate professor in the departments of American studies and African American and African Diaspora studies at Indiana University. It illustrates all 63 works in the exhibition full page and in full color and includes many supplementary images and photographs of the artist.




"Every time I think about color, it's a political statement." -Emma Amos