Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Amze Emmons: Playing the Grid | Reception

February 16 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art

1 Hoffman’s Mill Road
Chadds Ford, PA 19317 United States

Amze-Emmons-Playing-the-Grid-Reception-February-16

Amze Emmons: Playing the Grid | Reception

A Love Letter to Philadelphia

 

Reception:

Friday, February 16, 2023
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Glass Lobby Gallery
Brandywine Workshop and Archives
730 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146

Join us for an evening celebrating the work of Philadelphia-based artist Amze Emmons. The reception is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.

Emmons describes his exhibition Playing the Grid as a “confabulated game room that—along with the accompanying publication A City Guide—is an invitation to improvise, wander and play. It’s a playful love letter to Philadelphia with its complicated history and ever hopeful future.” On view in BWA’s Glass Gallery from January 8 to March 14, 2024, Playing the Grid presents drawings, prints, paper craft, and other elements that invite the show’s visitors into Emmons’ creative process—most specifically, his “decades-long ‘field work’ wandering the city and noticing the public phenomena Philadelphia endlessly provides.”

Emmons created an accompanying takeaway publication, Playing the Grid: A City Guide, with graphic-designer Scott Cole to help exhibition visitors and others pursue their own Philadelphia “fieldwork”—to “invite the reader to wander the city and notice things they hadn’t noticed before,” Emmons explains. Fireball Printing produced several thousand copies, which will be available at BWA and distributed around the city.

Emmons (born 1974) is a Philadelphia-based, multidisciplinary artist. His research interests include waking and noticing; the politics of architecture; vernacular design; everyday evidence of community; games, play, and generative systems; and tracking the ways print and material-culture history inform our current digital age. He received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University, an MFA from the University of Iowa, and is Associate Professor and Program Head of Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University, Philadelphia.

For inquiries or accessibility accommodations please email us at prints@brandywineworkshop.com, or call 267.831.2928.

From the Artblog:

Amze Emmons opening tonight postponed, James Brantley, Jeff Koons and Scribe Video independent media opportunity

Details

Date:
February 16
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Website:
https://brandywineworkshopandarchives.org/events/playing-the-grid-reception/

Venue

Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art
Address
1 Hoffman’s Mill Road
Chadds Ford, PA 19317 United States
+ Google Map

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *