Larger-than-life armor figures of black leather, metal, buckles, and zippers reflect the artist’s recurring childhood dreams running from hurtful things and need for protection, as well as her real-life adult experience running from Ground Zero on 9/11. Wearable mixed-media sculptures incorporating comics of superhero icons suggest strength and empowerment to break down social constructions or boundaries between masculine and feminine, and encourages viewers to imagine another identity.

25th September Competition is AMoA's Annual National Competition Exhibition

Thursday,September 27: Artist and juror Linda Stein will present $2,000 in cash awards to winners selected from recent artworks in all mediums created by over 50 artists!

Installations of fabric constructions suspended from the ceiling incorporate apparel items from the history of costume and suggest clothing as signifiers of social identity. Tea-stained silk organza stretched over wire are transparent and gestural of elements of nature: water, fire, air, and earth. Inspired by the structure and efficiency of nature and the artist’s ongoing contemplation of balance, the contrasts and similarities within each form and between the selected materials suggest difference and sameness.

Joelle Ford: Gumbo Girl

Arthur Secunda was born in New Jersey where his Sephardic familysettled after suffering from pogroms and other persecution in their nativeRussia.  Secunda’s abstract paintings, brightcollages and graphics, lush color and technical inventiveness belie a politicalconsciousness.  While searching for hiscreative style, he worked in the American musical form, jazz, as a pianist.  He is also one of the founders of Artforum magazine, has written extensivelyabout art in books and journals, and taught art at the university level.

The Italian born painter, Oscar DeMejo was also a jazz composer.  A graduate in Law and Political Science, heput those degrees to ...

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Arthur Secunda was born in New Jersey where his Sephardic familysettled after suffering from pogroms and other persecution in their nativeRussia.  Secunda’s abstract paintings, brightcollages and graphics, lush color and technical inventiveness belie a politicalconsciousness.  While searching for hiscreative style, he worked in the American musical form, jazz, as a pianist.  He is also one of the founders of Artforum magazine, has written extensivelyabout art in books and journals, and taught art at the university level.

The Italian born painter, Oscar DeMejo was also a jazz composer.  A graduate in Law ...