Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
To apply to the Registry, click here. Join our mailing list here to receive our open call announcement and other programming updates. For any further questions about the Registry, please contact us at registry@whitecolumns.org.
STATEMENT OF WORK
Amah focus on colors and shapes to create dialogue on how we perceive and see what is around us. Her love for lines and angles are influenced by urban architecture and lifestyle. Blending inspirations from cubism, constructivism, and brutalism. Amah uses layers of colors to create abstract notions of images. Amah mixes colors and pigments as she paints and constructs layers of symbols and images to create a story. This is to bring connection to the mental focus on how we intercept and create stories within what we see. The complex forms allow an interactive take for the viewer to see more than one idea or possible thought. The element of psychology plays a role in these forms by taking on multiple meanings and questioning the role of identity.
The usage of geometrical symbols and shapes are to deconstruct from reality but yet remind us of it through the subconscious and conscious. It is not the goal to answer certain questions though the artworks and present a viewpoint, but rather to engage the viewer into how important metaphors and symbols are through