Mixed media assemblage, with mask, buttons and photographs. Approximately 171x140 mm; 16¾x5½ inches.
Provenance: collection of the artist.
The Who Is It series from Amalia Amaki is a body of assemblage using venetian masks, buttons, and images from 19th century photography.
Amalia Amaki is a mixed media artist and art educator. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Georgia State University, a bachelor's degree in photography and painting from the University of New Mexico and a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. At the University of Delaware, Amaki was both curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection and an assistant professor of Black American Studies. Drawing from diverse sources of popular culture, she incorporates fabric, beads, pearls, buttons, paint, glitter, found objects, photographs and quilts into assemblages of positive images and playful puns on African-American life. In 2006, she had a mid-career retrospective, Amalia Amaki: Buttons, Boxes and the Blues, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC and the Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta. Amaki's artwork can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the High Museum of Art, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the University of Delaware, the Albany Museum of Art and the Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, among others. Biography courtesy of the University of Delaware.
Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
