Beauty Spot is the provocative title of the installation by Jesse Amado, the first conceptually oriented artist invited to create a site- specific exhibition for the McNay. Amado writes of his work, "I attempt to provide opportunities to examine the emotional impact of Minimalism; an exploration often called Post-minimalism. This practice allows me a position in which to absorb the world around me: architecture, industry, advertising, politics, and nature. Through a process of reduction, editing, and transforming and documenting, I make attempts to elicit a broad, ambiguous, open-minded visual poetry." Beauty Spot has its roots in 1970s process art. Amado elaborates the tough and formalist visual vocabulary of Minimalism with personal nuances, seductive beauty, and delicate interventions.
