Bad Sleeper: Between Dark and Light explores personal and collective histories through the lens of abstracted imagery. This exhibition showcases Amber Zora’s monotypes, screenprints, and ink drawings created during her residencies at Frontline Arts and Monson Arts in 2023 and Kala Art Institute in 2024.
Zora engages with the past while avoiding clear or direct representations of specific events. Her two-dimensional works draw viewers into a mysterious, personal space where everyday objects, figures, and scenes materialize from dark swaths of ink. The abstract quality of her imagery blurs the lines between reality and dream, allowing for a more subjective and personal interpretation.
Organized around recurring themes and motifs Zora has been revisiting in recent years, the exhibition features over 20 distinct pieces that demonstrate the artist's ongoing exploration of militarization, rural landscapes, and the use of poppies throughout history.
About Amber
Amber Zora is an interdisciplinary artist based in Rapid City, SD. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography + Integrated Media from Ohio University. Zora has exhibited her work in local and national galleries including the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, Chicago Cultural Center and the National Veterans Art Museum, among other spaces.
Zora was enlisted in the US Army for 8 years and deployed to Qayyarah West, Iraq, as an ammunition specialist from 2006-2007 with the 592nd Ordnance Company.
About Frontline Arts:
Frontline Arts, formerly known as the Printmaking Center of New Jersey (PCNJ), was incorporated in 1974. Frontline Arts' mission is to connect communities through socially engaging arts practices rooted in papermaking and printmaking. Frontline envisions an inclusive future where everyone can engage in a brave space of commonality, connection and empathy through the arts. Learn more about our history and mission >> .
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Amber Zora, 003, 15”x22.5”, monotype, 2023
Amber Zora, 005, 15”x22.5”, monotype, 2023
Amber Zora, Untitled, 15”x22.5”, monotype, 2023
Amber Zora, 011, 15”x22.5”, monotype, 2023
Amber Zora, 008, 15”x22.5”, monotype, 2023