Emma Amos
in ‘Selections from the Cochran Collection of African American Art’, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta
18 May – 4 August 2024
Emma Amos, Curtains, 1989 © Emma Amos
Together: Selections from the Cochran Collection of African American Art presents works on paper from the collection of LaGrange, Georgia residents Wesley and Missy Cochran. The collection comprises works created by both prominent and under-recognised African American artists who explore varied narratives, including racial identity, social justice and equality, cultural and individual agency, and abstraction. Artists featured in the collection—Emma Amos, Romare Beardon, Camille Billops, Robert Blackburn, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, David Driskell, Valerie Maynard, Sam Middleton, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Betye and Alison Saar, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Dox Thrash, and Hale Woodruff, among many others, whose work dealt with significant social, political, and historical themes from the early 1900s to today.