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.
Beauty Spot: Jesse Amado | McNay Art Museum
Essay by MaLin Wilson-Powell
