Michael Amrose: Abstraction

© Michael Amrose

About The Exhibition

Exhibition Curator: Roberto Muffoletto

The VASA exhibition by American photographer Michael Amrose emerges out of 20th century contemporary abstract art. The images presented in this exhibition challenge the notion of photography as a mirror of the external world, a lens made reflection of reality.

Michael Amrose's approach to image making is primarily the same as any photographer; he uses the camera to record what is in front of it. Instead of pointing his camera towards natural landscapes, the human figure or the social world, he points it towards elements of his own paintings. What we see is not dependent upon the external world but a constructed framing where color, shape and simulated texture become the subject of his work.

On VASA Exhibitions:

VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.

VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural.  The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural.  As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools.  Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard.   Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).

VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.

VASA Exhibitions (a program in VASA) includes images, videos and sound works.