Amos Lemon Burkhart: You Miss 90% of the Shots You Don’t Take
February 12 – April 2, 2022
RAM is excited to bring a vivacious, vivid, hopeful, bittersweet, creative, fun exhibit to you February 2022, Amos Lemon Burkhart: You Miss 90% of the Shots You Don’t Take. This interactive and vibrant exhibit, brought to you in cooperation with the Amos Lemon Burkhart Foundation, encourages you to wrestle with emotional and mental health through the lens of artwork and asks you to “Stay Alive /Make Art.”
Amos Lemon Burkhart was a driven young artist who created hundreds of paintings, works on paper, digital art and animations between the ages of 15 and 19. He died tragically at 19, drowning in an accident fueled by a combination of Xanax and alcohol.
He briefly studied life drawing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and experimental animation at CalArts, as well as in high school art classes. In his own studio in a barn, Lemon restlessly worked to understand and express his own turbulent interior life in images, text, sound and motion.
The complexities of emotional lability, anxiety, and trauma, questions about love, sex and gender identity, and issues around substance use and abuse are revealed in complex, layered images. A ceaseless observer of the quirks and oddities of the human race, Lemon’s wit, humor, and despair are all right there in his work – if you look closely enough.
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