Exhibition Statement

Beach People brings forth expansive, wide-angle views of beaches throughout the world and the figures that occupy such spaces, casting an ethereal, dream-like mood throughout the exhibition. Each scene seems strangely familiar, evoking feelings resembling childhood memories shrouded and gently obscured by the passing of time. 

Printed on textured watercolor paper, the works in Beach People reference the textured landscapes of beaches, evoking physical sensations and embodied memories that compliment the emotional states conjured by Amos’ images. 

Tied to these scenes are concepts related to leisure, commerce, conservation, and access, raising questions about who occupies and engages shoreside spaces, and to what ends. The purposefully obscured subjects leave space for viewers to cast their own interpretations of what is taking place within each blurred picture plane. 

Beach People embodies the liminal, existing between documentation and creative expression, photography and painting, image and object. Devoid of fine details, the works exist in a state of timelessness, caught between past, present, and future. Beaches themselves represent liminal spaces, zones with shifting boundaries between earth and ocean. 

Through this exhibition, the artist invites viewers to sit within this middle ground, in contemplation of how multiple complex associations with an image can coexist simultaneously.