Michele Amateau
Michele Amateau (CFA’68) of Boalsburg, Pa., published her third book, Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle (Eifrig Publishing, 2017), a collaboration with her daughter, Cara Judea Alhadeff. Michele edited the book and illustrated it with 40 gouache paintings. Her first two books were from exhibitions she curated: Couples Discourse (Penn State Press, 2006) and Uncanny Congruencies (Penn State Press, 2013). After graduating from BU, Michele received her MFA in painting and sculpture from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1973, and the following year she began exhibiting her work at many galleries: the Kornblee Gallery, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and Bertha Urdang Gallery in New York City; the Marianne Deson Gallery in Chicago; and the Angles Gallery and Acme Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work is in the collections of Albert and Vera List, Paula Cooper, Lucy Lippard, Jill and Len Kornblee, Carol and Arthur Goldberg, Chase Manhattan Bank, The Jewish Museum, The Center for Jewish History, the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard Hessel Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Art & Design, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and others. Michele’s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Art in America, Women’s Art Journal, and Art News, and she has shown her work at the Navy Pier in Chicago, Art Basel Miami, Pier 94 in New York, LA Contemporary, and the Tokyo Art Fair. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and an award from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Art critics Lucy Lippard, Peter Frank, Robert Mattison, Sarah Rich, and Leah Ollman have written about her work. Michele is a professor emerita at Penn State University.
From the Summer 2017 issue.