Amalia K. Amaki "Overcome Evil with Good"-1994

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  Amalia K. Amaki (American (Atlanta, Georgia), b. 1949- ),"Overcome Evil with Good"-1995 from the Fan Series, mixed media collage in gold painted wooden shadowbox with photographs, buttons, beads, and jewelry fragments, signed, titled and dated in black on back upper right of case, back upper left of case with label from Exhibits USA, Kansas City, Missouri didactic label from an exhibition titled "Bearing Witness". Contemporary mixed media shadowbox collage with black and white photograph with a group of African Americans with pennants, pennant at left reading "Overcome Evil with Good" surrounded by buttons and jewelry above a color embossed greeting card with flowers reading "Greetings from Prospect, N.Y." with stamp from US Postal Service dating to 1908 with round color photograph of child with blue beaded border, fan shaped composition with additional photographs and buttons at bottom acting as handle of fan. Overall measures approximately 20" x 15.25". Provenance: From the Private Collection of Benno & Babette Rothschild, Columbus, Georgia. Exhibited: "Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists", traveling exhibition including Museum of Fine Art in the Camille Hanks Cosby Academic Center at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996; Portland Museum of Art in 1999, and the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in 1999. Note: Amaki had her first retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in 2005. Amaki earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Georgia State University, a bachelor's degree in photography and painting from the University of New Mexico and a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. She worked a a curator (Paul R. Jones Collection) and an assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. Amaki's artwork can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA and the Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, among others.

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