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BIOGRAPHIES GALLERY ARTISTS Amze Emmons 1996 BFA from ohio Wesleyan University and his MFA from Univ of Iowa, he is in many collections (BMA, Frogg and others) has been the subject of ten or so exhibitions since 2002, with reviews, has many awards (emerging artists award, BMA, 2004), exhibitions, group exhibitions, art fairs, has collaborated and illustrated books, and teaches. PROCESS My studio practice is built on systems of research; I scan the media-scape for cues, images or phrases that draw connections between human migration, community, mobility, transience and the over-arching politics of architecture. In making, I work at the point where drawing and the mechanical language of print intersect. The images have a sense of magical/minimal realism that is inspired by architectural illustration, comic books, cartoon language, graffiti removal, information graphics, news footage, consumer packaging, instructional manuals and cinematic space/time. A RECENT EXPERIMENT For the past several years my artwork has begun as an investigation of images found in documentary sources, such as the Sunday Edition of The New York Times, on-line news sources, and websites for international aid agencies. I start with clippings depicting the smoking shells of bombed buildings, wreckage left after receding flood waters, tsunami-mangled villages, car bombings, refugee migrations …. Through erasure, drawing and collage, the world of the source begins to change. My media-isolation experiment is intended not to glorify or monumentalize the dystopic events unfolding around us. My interest is in distilling and cataloging the patterns and forms of our daily world through an intuitive editing process. We normally see these kinds of documentary images as topical, disposable, something to process ad consume quickly. By sifting through the pictorial evidence of displacement and strife I discover what is hidden in plain view: essential visual elements that let the eye linger and keep the viewer from turning the page Junji Amano Born 1949, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the Fine Art department of Tama Art University in 1976, Junji Amano launched on a very successful international career as a painter and printmaker. His work has won awards at several international juried print exhibitions, including San Francisco MOMA (1977, first prize), Lubijana (1978 in the 13th Print Biennial), and Venice (1988, premio internationale, Print Bienale) and has been the subject of solo shows in Tokyo, Kobe, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. His workcontinues to evolve, thanks in part to his active participation in workshops and international fellowships, including a recent residency at the University of Pennsylvania. Tom Baril A long collaborator with the late Robert Mapplethorpe, Baril reinvents many iconographic images through his printing techniques, which has made his work in high demand by photography dealers and collectors.

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