La’am = yes/no
(Between the Scarab
and the Dung Beetle)
constructions by Micaela Amateau Amato
Featured by East City Art!
(Between the Scarab
and the Dung Beetle)
constructions by Micaela Amateau Amato
Featured by East City Art!
©Micaela Amateau Amato
This
ongoing series of works includes many materials: discarded wood
constructions that evoke floating dwellings of the Ma’dan people of the
marshlands of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; cast glass and glazed
ceramic figures and life size portrait heads that have hybrid racial and
ethnic physiognomies, paint as illusion and as visceral substance, an
interconnected web of the ancient past with the present.
ongoing series of works includes many materials: discarded wood
constructions that evoke floating dwellings of the Ma’dan people of the
marshlands of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; cast glass and glazed
ceramic figures and life size portrait heads that have hybrid racial and
ethnic physiognomies, paint as illusion and as visceral substance, an
interconnected web of the ancient past with the present.
Since the mid 1970s, Micaela Amateau Amato has exhibited her work in New York City at Kornblee Gallery, Bertha Urdang Gallery, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 55 Mercer Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, Forum Gallery, the Jewish Museum, and many other venues. Her exhibitions at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles and Dwight Hackett Projects in Santa Fe were reviewed in Art in America and The Los Angeles Times. She has exhibited in New York’s Armory Shows at Pier 94, Basel Art Miami, LA Art Contemporary, the Tokyo Art Expo, the Chicago Art Fairs. Her work was represented by Marianne Deson Gallery, and Flatfile Gallery in Chicago. Her public collections include: Bard College’s Hessel Museum for Curatorial Studies, The Chase Manhattan Bank, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Rose Art Museum-Brandeis University, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Palm Springs Art Museum, and more. Private collections include: Albert and Vera List, Eileen Guggenheim, Lucy Lippard, Carol and Arthur Goldberg, Marieluise Hessel, Samuel Hoi, Paula Cooper, Marianne Deson. Reviews and articles on her work have appeared in Artforum, Art News, Art in America, Arts Magazine, and The New York Times.
She was awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Painting and New Forms, and a major Pollock Krasner Award. In 2007, she represented the U.S. in Sweden’s Lulea Biennial.
As Professor Emerita, she retired from the faculty at Penn State University in 2012, after 35 years of teaching.
