Barbara Amos
With an art practice that dates back to the early 1980s, Barbara Amos has worked in various paint mediums as well as photography, video and digital works. More recently, public art commissions and artistic collaborations with local environmental citizen groups have become a focus. This includes the 2010 photographically inspired New Patterns commission for Edmonton’s Royal Alexander Hospital, a Facebook page for Red Alert for The Castle Headwaters, the knitted Art Works for Wild Spaces (2012), and the outdoor protest performances Red Alert Project (2015).
Amos is a 1976 University of Waterloo graduate (with Fine Arts electives) with further training from Ontario College of Art, Toronto Artists Workshop, and Alberta College of Art (1977-80). At the core of Amos’ exhibition history are her paintings, which have involved oil on canvas, ink on metal and two-dimensional art glass panels. Her subject matter is eclectic and has ranged from still life, mountain landscape, urban environments and more abstract imagery. As genres, they are sometimes manipulated, fragmented or subjected to processes that heighten or challenge perception as in her series: Remixes, Landscapes Meltdown and Landscapes Rearranged.
Amos is a 1976 University of Waterloo graduate (with Fine Arts electives) with further training from Ontario College of Art, Toronto Artists Workshop, and Alberta College of Art (1977-80). At the core of Amos’ exhibition history are her paintings, which have involved oil on canvas, ink on metal and two-dimensional art glass panels. Her subject matter is eclectic and has ranged from still life, mountain landscape, urban environments and more abstract imagery. As genres, they are sometimes manipulated, fragmented or subjected to processes that heighten or challenge perception as in her series: Remixes, Landscapes Meltdown and Landscapes Rearranged.