Kathleen Amon

Kathleen Amon
Lambertville, New Jersey, USA

STATEMENT

I majored in music in college, but before I studied it formally, I knew many aspects of it intuitively. I knew chord progressions intuitively. I knew the dissonance of the augmented fourth intuitively. I did not know what a tonic chord was, except intuitively. I have approached my art in the same intuitive way, and as I have gained experience in the medium of abstract collage, I have begun to have a better understanding of the principals of design that direct it. My art investigates the relationship between shapes, colours, and textures. I make a complex tableau and unify it through a cohesive design underwritten by a large palette of colours. I appreciate that abstract art emphasizes the purity of form and colour relationships. I value beauty in art and strive to create it in my work.  

BIO

Kathleen Amon is a mixed media/collage artist and has exhibited her work throughout the region where she lives. Her work has been accepted in the Annual Juried Art Shows at the Phillips Mill in New Hope, Pennsylvania; the Ellarslie Open Juried Art Shows at the City Museum of Trenton; juried shows at the Stover Mill Gallery, Philadelphia Sketch Club and the D&R Greenway Land Trust in Princeton, New Jersey; and at group shows at the Prallsville Mills in Stockton, New Jersey, the New Hope Arts Center in New Hope, Pennsylvania, the Arts Council of Princeton, and the Trisha Vergis Gallery in Lambertville, New Jersey. In 2018, she exhibited in a show with her husband, photographer Jim Amon, at the Millstone River Gallery in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

Kathleen has been awarded numerous prizes including Best Graphic Design for her Red Sea ShadFest poster in 2015, Honorable Mention for her mixed media work, Shunbun no Hi at the 34th Ellarslie Open in 2017, and an Honor Award for her mixed media work, Taking Off, at the Summer Art Salon at the New Hope Arts Center, also in 2017. In 2018 her artwork Millefleur was chosen by the Phillips Mill Art Association as the image to be used for the advertising, promotion and public relations for the 89th Phillips Mill Annual Juried Art Show. In 2019 she received First Place at the Philadelphia Sketch Club’s “Absolutely Abstract” art show for her work Midori no Hi. Additionally in 2019, she received an award for her work, Pele (Hawaiian Goddess of Fire) at the Stover Mill Gallery.

Besides working in mixed media/collage, Kathleen makes and sells greeting cards, and since 2007 has been a contributor to the ShadFest Poster Auction which takes place annually during the Lambertville/New Hope Shad Festival.

Kathleen is a member of Artsbridge, New Hope Art League, and the National Collage Society.

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