Amy Pryor: Time and Temperature
Curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch
The Yard: City Hall Park
116 Nassau Street, Floors 5 & 6
New York, NY 10038
August 21 –November 14, 2019
Opening reception: Wednesday, August 21, 6 – 8 pm
Viewing hours: Monday – Friday, 9:30 am – 5 pm (check in with community manager on floor 5) and by appointment.
Contact eileen@neumeraki.com
Neumeraki is pleased to present Time and Temperature, a solo exhibition of Amy Pryor’s work ranging from 2008 to 2019. In her collages and paintings, Pryor utilizes advertisements, data, aerial photography, and product packaging to construct landscapes and abstractions that examine how we navigate and perceive the world. More specifically, her works investigate culture, consumerism, and capitalism—the way one processes and organizes a constant bombardment of information and data. Dissecting and transforming the ordinary and familiar detritus that is part of navigating our daily lives of “salutations and solicitations,” Pryor’s work further investigates ideas of value, desire, and a longing for a sense of place and belonging as well as alludes to the current state of our environment.
With dense repetitions of clippings of advertisement circulars, bills, product packaging, security envelopes, documents, and topographic photographs juxtaposed with painted surfaces, Pryor’s work references landscapes, constellations, mapping, and satellite imaging. Through her formal and linguistic approaches, Pryor explores her personal narratives while revealing an intricate consumer culture. According to the artist, “By re-fashioning these found materials, I create image-texts that reflect on an increasingly complex and decentralized global culture. My meditation on various aspects of contemporary life is tinged with melancholy, anxiety, humor, and a sense of absurdity.”
Amy Pryor, Time and Temperature, 2019, diptych collage on panel, 30 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Amy Pryor, Heatwave, 2019, mixed media collage on panel, 22 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
About the Artist
Based in the Bronx, NY, Amy Pryor has exhibited at The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx River Arts Center, Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Starlight Park, and Wave Hill. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at the 92Y TriBeCa and Mixed Greens, New York, NY; Islip Museum, Islip, NY; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; New Haven Museum, New Haven, CT, and Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, among other venues. Pryor earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University and BFA in Art History and Sculpture from Ohio University. She is an alumna of The Bronx Museum’s AIM Program and a recipient of The Bronx Council of the Arts’ BRIO grant.
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Neumeraki
Founded in 2016 by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Neumeraki collaborates with artists, organizations, and galleries on curatorial, consulting, writing, and editing projects. Jeng Lynch works with artists on career growth and development and has curated exhibitions in galleries and nonprofit institutions, including LMAKbooks+design, Sperone Westwater, Lesley Heller Workspace, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Garis & Hahn, and Radiator Gallery. Jeng Lynch is also the Curator of Visual Arts at Wave Hill, where she organizes solo exhibitions by emerging artists for the Sunroom Project Space, co-curates shows in Glyndor Gallery, and is involved in all aspects of visual arts programming.
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The Yard
Founded in 2011 by Morris Levy and Richard Beyda, The Yard is a revolutionary, shared office space that allows driven professionals to work together in an innovative community. The Yard provides month-to-month memberships for private offices, private desks, and co-working spaces in 14 designed locations in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The community comprises more than 2,000 companies and thousands of members across all locations. Members have access to state-of-the-art conference rooms, beautiful breakout lounges, monthly networking events, rotating art gallery installations, and hundreds of business amenities.
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