AMY BLAKEMORE THREE PHOTOGRAPHS
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 – JANUARY 9, 2021
F is pleased to announce Three Photographs, a solo exhibition by Houston based artist Amy Blakemore, on view from November 13, 2020 – January 9, 2021. The photographs will be exhibited one at a time in the dining room at 4225 Gibson Street, the house that we rent from Blakemore, which she has owned since 1997. Blakemore lives on the next block over.
On November 24, 2020, I interviewed Blakemore sitting together out in the backyard. The interview was released as F PDF 008 and is available below:
1: November 13 – December 9, 2020
Drapes, 2013
Chromogenic print, 12 x 12 inches
2: December 9 – December 27, 2020
Pool, 2012
Chromogenic print, 12 x 12 inches
3: December 27, 2020 – January 9, 2021
Edgar, 2018
Chromogenic print, 15 x 15 inches
Amy Blakemore (b. 1958, Tulsa, OK) received a BS in Psychology (1980) and a BA in Art (1982) from Drury College (now Drury University), Springfield, MO, and an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin (1985). From 1985-87 she was an artist resident at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She has exhibited her photographs nationally and internationally for more than three decades, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Day for Night, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Encounter, a two person exhibition with Edgar Leciejewski, at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2018). A twenty-year survey of her work, Amy Blakemore: Photographs 1988-2008, was organized by Alison de Lima Greene at the MFAH (2009), and traveled to the Seattle Art Museum (2010) and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2011). She was the subject of two recent survey exhibitions: I'm Not Tellin', Art League Houston (2015) and People, Cars & Buildings, Sculptures, Flowers, and Junk, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2016). She is Chair of the Photography Department at the Glassell School of Art, MFAH. Blakemore is represented by Inman Gallery, Houston.
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4225 Gibson Street
Houston TX 77007
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