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Emily L Joseph
USA
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“The execution of art on a canvas is not a mechanical feat. It first starts in the soul of an artist and then resurrects.”
Emily L. Joseph has been drawing and painting since she was four. It gave her the ability to escape and express herself in safe imagery. She loves the idea of lines, centering on the thought that the shortest distance between two spots is a straight line. Doing gesture drawings, she saw how a line gives movement and scribbles that could become a pattern to dances.
Stand Still | Acrylic
$800
40 X 30
Life is chaotic, sometimes we need to stop and look and observe.
The artist battled with the strength of a warrior as she was a survivor of rape, incest, and abuse. Over the years, her paintings began to unravel and reveal the silence, the fright, and the tribulations throughout her childhood to the end of a destructive marriage. The screams that were never heard, the tears never seen, the fear she could not show, the shame of body and mind.
Crash | Acrylic
$500
24 X 18
After a breakup, there is a period of crashing.
Emily’s paintings became the venue for her self-liberation. Her art pieces depict the evolution from childhood terrors to adult recovery and illuminate the darkness. In addition, there is growth in her execution of work, reflecting the joy found in other areas of her life.
“Despite everything, I had to be there and stay strong to provide a healthy life for my children. This became my road to healing and recovery."
Emily’s artwork was dormant and hidden for years. She would paint her pieces and store them under the bed or in the garage. During the isolation of COVID-19, she began to paint again with zealousness and ease. She also found a genuine newness and expression in her work that started to sing. The current political struggles increased the volume and she found her voice again in painting.
Grace | Acrylic
$1,000
40 X 30
Peace brings grace to the soul.
Life has been chaotic after Covid. Venturing out seems to be an event.
Amongst the crowd | Acrylic
NFS
30 X 40
The majority of Emily’s work focuses on personal and public spaces over time, portraying layered images that linger between the tangible and the observed. While she generally focuses on the technical aspects of composition and lighting, she also seeks to elicit specific emotions through changes in form and color.
“Using circles, swatches of color, and lines, I try to give liveliness to my paintings, creating movement. When painting, I develop a series of works either similar in color, expression, or design.”
“When touching the canvas, the tools employed are required to express emotion, energy, and feelings. Tools may include paint and brush but also texture, color, and shapes sing and recite the emotion.”
While Emily has worked with an extensive palette in the past, she finds the restriction of the palette. In her recent works, she implemented way more appeal to her method. Ever since her time in graduate school (Rochester Institute of Technology – MFA), she has been following T. S. Elliot’s Objective Correlative for her work.
Bird on a Wire | Acrylic
$900
36 X 36
Nature provides an insight into a world of color and shapes.
The artist believes that objective is correlative to T.S. Eliot. It is the means of expressing emotion in art by using a set of objects, a situation, or a chain of events. Following this method, Emily claims she can convert her paintings into those emotions.
Won’t go Back | Acrylic
$800
40 X 30
Political struggles as a woman. This is my motto.
Emily has approached several subjects and created multiple series, each evolving stylistically further studying the figure and its environments. Her recent work seeks to capture the complexity of human interaction by exaggerating movement through the abstraction of figures.
The pounding beats of the heart become melodic.
Fugue | Acrylic
$900
40 X 30
“I choose to do abstract painting because it supplies the necessary tools allowing me to portray my thoughts.”
Allegory | Acrylic
$900
40 X 30
Simple tasks become unnecessary.
Emily’s work varies in size, from small works on paper to 48x48 inches on canvas. She doesn’t shy away from incorporating a wide range of tools in her artworks in order to add more depth. The tools in her process can range from spray paint, conte crayons, graphite, charcoal, and even acrylic paints.
Make a decision then at the last minute change that decision again and again.
If You Don’t Mind | Acrylic
$1,000
30 X 40
To incorporate dots into artwork, the artist employs a range of sponges. With each piece, there is an underlying core of what could be construed as darkness and a definite area of lightness. As an abstract artist, Emily lets her viewers interpret her work as per their own understanding and beliefs. Instead of dictating the work to them, she lets them discover it on their own.
Can’t Feel the Heat | Acrylic
$800
30 X 40
When you are faced with a decision that is too much to bear you have to take the risk. It burns.
“My conceptual focus has been greatly influenced by my fascination with human behavior and how I receive information.”
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