SOLO EXHIBITION
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SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Emily
L. Joseph
USA
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“My conceptual focus has been greatly influenced by my fascination with human behavior and the manner in which I receive information.”
Emily L. Joseph has been drawing and painting since she was 4 years old. It gave her the ability to escape and express herself in safe imagery. She loves the use of lines, centering on the thought that the shortest distance between two spots is a straight line. Doing gesture drawings, she saw the line give movement and scribbles could become a pattern to dances.
The use of pink versus purple gives the painting a liveliness, and expresses the independence of the artist.
The artist is 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, constant fear, the shame of body and mind.
In the midst of crowded room, and noise all I could hear and see were the people outside my window running around to avoid the rain.
Emily’s paintings became the venue for her self-liberation. Her art pieces depict the evolution from childhood terrors to adult recovery and bring light to 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."
Joseph’s painting 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, she began to paint again with zealousness and ease and found a genuine newness and expression to her work that began to sing. The current political struggles increased the volume and she found her voice again in painting.
“The core of my work focuses on color and the use of color theory such as illumination, complimentary colors, and the subtractive method. Through observation, I found that if I placed a black box on a page, it became stagnant – a black box. However, when I drew a jagged red line through the box, it became dynamic, a new form of energy.”
The majority of Emily’s work focuses on personal and public spaces over the course of 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.
I was given a toy with a music box that played 4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. When the song was done, the birds appeared. I love this toy.
“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.”
To say, that pink is hard color for me to relate to is an understatement, I decided to challenge myself.
While in the past Emily has worked with an extensive palette, she finds the restriction of the palette, in her recent works way more appealing 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.
This past summer and fall the rain was almost every other day. My work turned monochromatic to reflect the grey surroundings.
The artist believes that objective correlative from T.S Eliot is a means of expressing emotion in art by using either set objects, a situation, or a chain of events. When following this method, Emily claims that she is able to convert her paintings into those emotions.
As the rain stopped, the sun began to appear over the grey skies.
Emily has approached several subjects and created multiple series, each evolving stylistically to further study the figure and its environments. Her recent work seeks to capture the complexity of human interaction by exaggerating movement through the abstraction of the figure.
Dealing with adultness and the need to be a child.
“I choose to do abstract painting because it supplies the necessary tools allowing me to portray my thoughts.”
The sun is out and the plants are blossoming. New Energy
Emily’s work ranges 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 to them. The tools in her process can range from spray paint, conte crayons, graphite, charcoal, and even acrylic paints.
Being an individual can feel at times, like you are alone, left behind.
To create the dots in her work, the artist uses e 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.
In order to paint, I need to turn myself inside out.