Emma and Schuyler, Sumner, Mississippi

Maude Schuyler Clay

1992

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A geometric pattern familiar from many global traditions--whether textiles like American quilts, Persian carpets, Laotian appliques, and Bhutanese kira or tiled walls and floors or woodwork, Amighi has here harnessed patterns into a metal-and-shadow sculpture. The tightly tessellated pattern gradually disintegrates both in its shadow and in its form. Work includes a light in addition to the metal and fiberglass mesh sculpture.
Glazed porcelain sculpture in the form of an open-faced sandwich, mounted on a square wood board, comprised of a piece of white porcelain bread with glazed brown "crust" topped with a piece of yellow cheese and green lettuce with yellow highlights and an open mouth with red lips and a set of four square, white teeth, from the upper lip protrude red spiky elements and below the mouth an additional row of eight teeth, one with a gold filling.
This is a black-and-white print of two figures standing in a field. On the far left there is a gun standing upright next to a male figure with a helmet. He is facing another male figure wearing a headdress with an axe in his side. There are flowers growing by his feet. The words “Conquistando Lo Innocente” “1/20” and the artist’s signature are written below the print.
Pencil drawing of a circle near the center of the paper with an oval to the left, with an edge just touching an edge of the circle. A second circle drawn in ink with a thicker line is just below the circle and oval.