In Conversation: Artist Amy Blakemore with Dean Daderko
- When
- September 17, 2016
- Where
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)
5216 Montrose
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- Admission is free; seating is limited.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) presents In Conversation: Artist Amy Blakemore with Dean Daderko. Saturday, September 17 at 2 PM.
Join artist Amy Blakemore and curator Dean Daderko for a conversation on her solo presentation, People, Cars & Buildings, Sculptures, Flowers, and Junk, featured in the Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Volume 2 round of exhibitions.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amy Blakemore (b. 1958, Tulsa, OK) received a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Art from Drury College (now Drury University) in Springfield, MO, and an M.F.A from the University of Texas at Austin. She has lived and worked in Houston since 1985, when she arrived in the city to be an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Core Program.
Blakemore’s photographs have been seen in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2006 biennial exhibition Day for Night. Her work has also been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (2009), the Seattle Art Museum (2010), and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2011). Art League Houston honored Blakemore as the Texas Artist of the Year in 2015. Blakemore has exhibited with Inman Gallery in Houston for more than two decades.
Pictured: Amy Blakemore, “Someone’s Living Room,” 2010. Chromogenic print, ed., 10 12 x 12 inches. Courtesy the artist and Inman Gallery, Houston.
