SARAH AMOS MARCH 31st – APRIL 31st Artist’s Reception March 31st 6:00 – 8:00 pm For immediate release Contact: Cynthia Reeves AMOS CHALLENGES DEFINITIONS OF PAINTINGS AND WORK ON PAPER Sarah Amos opens a show of new paintings and large format works on paper at Reeves Contemporary at 535 West 24 th Street in New York City. The artist’s reception is Thursday, March 31 st between 6-8 p.m.; the show will run through April 30 th. A native of Australia, Sarah Amos is a master printmaker who now lives in northern Vermont. In this new series of works, she employs a process of richly layered printmaking punctuated by over painting – vibrant and dynamic patterns that echo the indigenous culture of her homeland Australia. The fluid threading of lines, dots and swirls wind their way through these marvelously open and celebratory works. The marks have become more complex, and the spatial language now shifts dramatically. But Amos does not let the work get away from her: working carefully with color and patterns, she keeps the paintings in check, giving a subtle but immovable boundary of color field and tonal juxtaposition. Her colors recapitulate the bleached desert landscapes of Australia, and in this context bring a unexpected punch to the entire installation of work. Ms. Amos began working with monoprints and one can see this legacy continuing in the ground layers of each piece. Whether a painting or a work on paper, she creates a foundation for each with soft, repetitive shapes and quiet color. The successive layers of pattern in the works on paper are laid on often while the surface is still wet. Her visual vocabulary demonstrates a consistent allegiance to her history and her native culture, which are brought to life in this new series of works with great integrity and joy. Amos came initially to the United States in the early 1990s, to attend the Tamarind Institute if Lithography in Albuquerque, New Mexico were she became a collaborative Master Printer in lithography. In 1994 she became the Director of the Vermont Studio Center Press in northern Vermont until 2004. At the Press, Amos collaborated with numerous well-known artists each month, making fine art prints in a number of printmaking techniques and printing editions. In the midst of this demanding schedule, she managed to find time to create her own work, to which she now devotes her entire studio schedule. Amos has also taught for the last three years at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and has hosted a variety of printmaking workshops through the United States, Italy and Australia. She also collaborates with the Great River Arts Institute as faculty for their printmaking sessions each summer in Bellows Falls, Vermont. For more information, call Great River Arts at 802 463 3330. Amos’ work appears in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Australia and Ireland, and she is represented by Spheris Gallery in Walpole, New Hampshire and by Reeves Contemporary in New York. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 – 5:30. For more information contact the gallery at 212 714 0044.