Emma Barnes, "How are we tied ?"
Plaster, pigment, 8”x 10”, 2021.
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BIO
Emma Barnes is a multi-disciplinary artist born in South Carolina in 1992. From 2008 to 2010, Barnes attended the South Carolina Governor's High School for the Arts and Humanities to study visual art. In 2014, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Painting & Printmaking and a double major in Gender Studies. In May 2022, Emma graduated with an MFA in Painting, Drawing and Photography in the Alfred/ Düsseldorf program. This November 2022 she plans to exhibit work in a group show at Montgomery College. Growing up in rural South Carolina continues to influence her investigation of materials and motifs. Guided by metaphors and wordplay that exist between nature and human experience, Emma investigates ideas of landscape, self, and time by linking poetics in her motifs, process, and materials. She explores the porous nature of plaster to create work that resembles artifacts or fossils. Emma is drawn to plaster’s shift from liquid to solid because the transformation parallels cycles of nature as well as changes in her own personal growth.
STATEMENT
Destruction and transformation are two organic processes that often go hand in hand. Growing up in rural South Carolina I have personal experiences with agriculture, both witnessing and taking part in the performance of plowing and burning fields for new growth. The story of the landscape is not just a story of healing but also a story of home and belonging. Using plaster, photography, and painting, I regard destruction and ephemerality as a space for new beginnings rather than loss. By leaning into the porous alchemy of plaster, I physically personal motifs and photographs of southern landscapes, and imprint my mark-making to conceptually wrestle with my longing for the nature of home. How the materials respond and interact with each other mirrors natural and agricultural cycles and a visual burying and unburying of imagery emerges to highlight the connections between destruction and transformation. In the flickering of photographic landscapes, submerged broken bits, and cast shapes I dance between abstraction and representation. I search for self-reflection and celebrate the discoveries offered in the failures to document or hold a place.
Plaster, pigment, 8”x 10”, 2021.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.
BIO
Emma Barnes is a multi-disciplinary artist born in South Carolina in 1992. From 2008 to 2010, Barnes attended the South Carolina Governor's High School for the Arts and Humanities to study visual art. In 2014, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Painting & Printmaking and a double major in Gender Studies. In May 2022, Emma graduated with an MFA in Painting, Drawing and Photography in the Alfred/ Düsseldorf program. This November 2022 she plans to exhibit work in a group show at Montgomery College. Growing up in rural South Carolina continues to influence her investigation of materials and motifs. Guided by metaphors and wordplay that exist between nature and human experience, Emma investigates ideas of landscape, self, and time by linking poetics in her motifs, process, and materials. She explores the porous nature of plaster to create work that resembles artifacts or fossils. Emma is drawn to plaster’s shift from liquid to solid because the transformation parallels cycles of nature as well as changes in her own personal growth.
STATEMENT
Destruction and transformation are two organic processes that often go hand in hand. Growing up in rural South Carolina I have personal experiences with agriculture, both witnessing and taking part in the performance of plowing and burning fields for new growth. The story of the landscape is not just a story of healing but also a story of home and belonging. Using plaster, photography, and painting, I regard destruction and ephemerality as a space for new beginnings rather than loss. By leaning into the porous alchemy of plaster, I physically personal motifs and photographs of southern landscapes, and imprint my mark-making to conceptually wrestle with my longing for the nature of home. How the materials respond and interact with each other mirrors natural and agricultural cycles and a visual burying and unburying of imagery emerges to highlight the connections between destruction and transformation. In the flickering of photographic landscapes, submerged broken bits, and cast shapes I dance between abstraction and representation. I search for self-reflection and celebrate the discoveries offered in the failures to document or hold a place.
Plaster, pigment, 8”x 10”, 2021.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.
BIO
Emma Barnes is a multi-disciplinary artist born in South Carolina in 1992. From 2008 to 2010, Barnes attended the South Carolina Governor's High School for the Arts and Humanities to study visual art. In 2014, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Painting & Printmaking and a double major in Gender Studies. In May 2022, Emma graduated with an MFA in Painting, Drawing and Photography in the Alfred/ Düsseldorf program. This November 2022 she plans to exhibit work in a group show at Montgomery College. Growing up in rural South Carolina continues to influence her investigation of materials and motifs. Guided by metaphors and wordplay that exist between nature and human experience, Emma investigates ideas of landscape, self, and time by linking poetics in her motifs, process, and materials. She explores the porous nature of plaster to create work that resembles artifacts or fossils. Emma is drawn to plaster’s shift from liquid to solid because the transformation parallels cycles of nature as well as changes in her own personal growth.
STATEMENT
Destruction and transformation are two organic processes that often go hand in hand. Growing up in rural South Carolina I have personal experiences with agriculture, both witnessing and taking part in the performance of plowing and burning fields for new growth. The story of the landscape is not just a story of healing but also a story of home and belonging. Using plaster, photography, and painting, I regard destruction and ephemerality as a space for new beginnings rather than loss. By leaning into the porous alchemy of plaster, I physically personal motifs and photographs of southern landscapes, and imprint my mark-making to conceptually wrestle with my longing for the nature of home. How the materials respond and interact with each other mirrors natural and agricultural cycles and a visual burying and unburying of imagery emerges to highlight the connections between destruction and transformation. In the flickering of photographic landscapes, submerged broken bits, and cast shapes I dance between abstraction and representation. I search for self-reflection and celebrate the discoveries offered in the failures to document or hold a place.