In 2018, Amy Blakemore and Edgar Leciejewski participated in a cultural exchange between Houston and Leipzig, Germany, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the two sister cities. While in Leipzig, Blakemore turned her characteristic gaze toward a new landscape, producing images tinged with a sense of wandering and a warmth characteristic of someone learning a new place over the course of being embedded in it. Blakemore’s images were shot on film using a Diana, a camera prone to light leaks and generally difficult to control. Back in Houston, she processed the film and printed in her darkroom.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to two artist relief funds, one national (ArtistRelief.org) and one local (Houston Artist Alliance Artist Relief Fund).
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HER DIGRESSIONS DON’T FEEL LIKE THE EXERCISES OF AN INDIFFERENT AESTHETE, THEY FEEL LIKE POLITE CHANGES OF SUBJECT: ENOUGH ABOUT THAT; ISN’T THE LIGHT INTERESTING RIGHT NOW?
—Josh Bernstein, Introduction to Blakemore's 2015 Texas Artist of the Year Catalogue
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A champion of the odd, the worn, the awkward, and the plain, Blakemore wrests moments of great depth and beauty from the seemingly commonplace. She shows us that moments of connection and magic can be found in the most quotidian of scenes, if we look closely enough. —Dean Daderko, Stings, Specks, Cuts, and Little Holes
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Any overview of Amy Blakemore's work must ultimately end with light. Light is the essential agent of photography, and Blakemore manipulates it expertly.
— Alison de Lima Greene, catalogue essay from Blakemore's 2009 MFAH survey
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