Fifty Paintings - Ames, Anthony

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Résumé :
This volume presents fifty paintings (1985 - 2020) with brief references for each. The paintings-executed in acrylic latex paint on two inch deep wooden panels-refer to or are informed by a particular way of looking at architecture. They are abstract in nature, and representative in subject matter. They propose an ambiguous reading of deep and shallow space-always frontal-in a world reinforced by a vocabulary based on a purist leitmotif and organized in a syntax of superimposed, juxtaposed, and spatially obscure centers, edges, grids, and
alignments. The paintings have been exhibited sporadically at selected venues including The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, The Biennale Architettura in Venice, Italy and at Le Corbusier's enigmatic and beautiful Casa Curutchet in LA Plata, Argentina. They are presented here with an insightful introduction by Andrea Simitch and a timeless foreword by Dean Almy.

Biographie:
Anthony Ames has maintained an architectural practice in Atlanta, Georgia since 1976. He received architectural degrees from Georgia Tech and Harvard University. He has taught at eleven universities and lectured at many more. Ames, a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and of the American Institute of Architects has received numerous architectural awards and has been widely published. See: Ames, Five Houses, (Princeton Architectural Press, 1987) and Ames, Residential Work: Volume 2, (ORO Editions, 2007). He began painting in 1984 and has been struggling with it ever since.