Amy Blakemore

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installation images of recent exhibition

Amy Blakemore lives and works in Houston, and has been working with an idiosyncratic, low-tech camera for over twenty years. Her deceptively simple images of friends, local landscapes and foliage, reflect her interest in capturing fleeting aspects of personality, memory and other psychological aspects of a scene. Her work has been exhibited widely in Texas and she is included in the photography collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Blakemore was also invited to participate in the 2005 Pingyao International Festival for Photography in Pangyao, P.R. China and the 2006 Whitney Biennial "Day for Night" curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne. In 2007 Blakemore's work was included in "Silver", Houston Center for Photography's 25th Anniversary exhibition.

On view through September 13, 2009 at the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "Amy Blakemore 1988-2008", presents a selection of work executed over the past twenty years. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring an interview with Blakemore and essays by Alison de Lima Greene, curator of the exhibition; Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the MFAH; Chrissie Iles, Curator, the Whitney Museum of American Art; and Marisa Sánchez, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum.

Blakemore was born in Tulsa, OK in 1958, received a BS/BA in Psychology from Drury College, Missouri and an MFA in Photography from UT Austin.