A Remedy for the Homesick: Two Places, One Time
2017
Materials: Latex, dirt
2017
Materials: Latex, dirt
b. 1991 Bryn Bawr, PA
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Contact: emrea.email@gmail.com
MFA, 2021 (university of pennsylvania)
MSW, 2021 (” “)
Solo Exhibitions:
2018, Redshift, RAIR, Philadelphia, PA
2017, Terrestrials, UFO Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Group Exhibitions:
2024, Undue Burden, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
2023, A Comfortable Violence, BlahBlah Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2021, A Wave, Still Here, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2021, Fresh Ruins, The Parlour, Baltimore, MA
2020, William Way LGBTQ Center, Philadelphia, PA
2019, Small Works, Kelly Writer’s House, Philadelphia PA
2019, The Green Sun, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018, Wetlab, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
2018, Climate, Earth Action Initiative, UC Berkeley, CA
2017, Social Thoughts, Indiana University Union Street Gallery, Kokomo IN
2017, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2014, Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014, Westmoreland Studios, Philadelphia, PA
Residencies, Awards, and Fellowships:
2024, Teaching Artist in Residence at Studio Route 29, Frenchtown, NJ
2024, Artist in Residence at ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
2020, Porter Fellow, SP2, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (research)
2019, Silverstein Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Tokyo, Japan
2018, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA (residency)
2018, RAIR (Recycled Artists in Residency), Revolution Recovery, Philadelphia, PA (residency)
2018, The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (residency)
2018, This Will Take Time, Point Arena, CA (residency)
2014, The Fine Arts Award in Sculpture and 3-Dimensional Design, University of Pennsylvania
2013, The University of Pennsylvania Clay Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2013, The Fine Arts Award in Sculpture and 3-Dimensional Design, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Experience:
2021-2022, Teaching Artist, Center for Creative Works, Wynnewood, PA
2021, Teaching Assistant, Painting Practices, University of Pennsylvania
2020, Teaching Assistant, Digital Photography, University of Pennsylvania
2019-20, Graduate Student Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2019, Teaching Assistant, Digital Photography, University of Pennsylvania
2019, Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Analog Photography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019, Teaching Assistant, Digital Phototgraphy, University of Pennsylvania
2018, Artist Talk, Green Home NYC, Hosted by ThoughtWorks, New York, NY
2018, Teaching Assistant, Form & Meaning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2016-18, Lead Instructor, Mixed Media Sculpture, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
2017, Visiting Instructor, “Found Sculpture,” PLACE (Place for Sustainable Living), Oakland, CA
2015-16, Volunteer Teaching Assistant, Drawing & Painting, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Contact: emrea.email@gmail.com
MFA, 2021 (university of pennsylvania)
MSW, 2021 (” “)
Solo Exhibitions:
2018, Redshift, RAIR, Philadelphia, PA
2017, Terrestrials, UFO Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Group Exhibitions:
2024, Undue Burden, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
2023, A Comfortable Violence, BlahBlah Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2021, A Wave, Still Here, Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia, PA
2021, Fresh Ruins, The Parlour, Baltimore, MA
2020, William Way LGBTQ Center, Philadelphia, PA
2019, Small Works, Kelly Writer’s House, Philadelphia PA
2019, The Green Sun, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018, Wetlab, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
2018, Climate, Earth Action Initiative, UC Berkeley, CA
2017, Social Thoughts, Indiana University Union Street Gallery, Kokomo IN
2017, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2014, Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2014, Westmoreland Studios, Philadelphia, PA
Residencies, Awards, and Fellowships:
2024, Teaching Artist in Residence at Studio Route 29, Frenchtown, NJ
2024, Artist in Residence at ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
2020, Porter Fellow, SP2, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (research)
2019, Silverstein Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Tokyo, Japan
2018, The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA (residency)
2018, RAIR (Recycled Artists in Residency), Revolution Recovery, Philadelphia, PA (residency)
2018, The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (residency)
2018, This Will Take Time, Point Arena, CA (residency)
2014, The Fine Arts Award in Sculpture and 3-Dimensional Design, University of Pennsylvania
2013, The University of Pennsylvania Clay Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2013, The Fine Arts Award in Sculpture and 3-Dimensional Design, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Experience:
2021-2022, Teaching Artist, Center for Creative Works, Wynnewood, PA
2021, Teaching Assistant, Painting Practices, University of Pennsylvania
2020, Teaching Assistant, Digital Photography, University of Pennsylvania
2019-20, Graduate Student Lecturer, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2019, Teaching Assistant, Digital Photography, University of Pennsylvania
2019, Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Analog Photography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019, Teaching Assistant, Digital Phototgraphy, University of Pennsylvania
2018, Artist Talk, Green Home NYC, Hosted by ThoughtWorks, New York, NY
2018, Teaching Assistant, Form & Meaning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2016-18, Lead Instructor, Mixed Media Sculpture, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
2017, Visiting Instructor, “Found Sculpture,” PLACE (Place for Sustainable Living), Oakland, CA
2015-16, Volunteer Teaching Assistant, Drawing & Painting, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
I am drawn to the things my neighbors throw away. I like to pick them up, and put them in my pockets, and take them home, and pull them apart, and touch the parts that held them together, and look for any gaps, or cracks or holes that might lead to somewhere else, and mark the points of entry, and linger on the threshold---
Full List of Stuff
The body of work you find on this website is made of stuff. Some of this stuff is physical stuff. Some of the physical stuff is regular “art stuff” that I buy at like Michael’s or Dick Blick or wherever. Some of the physical stuff is stuff I find in boxes labeled “FREE.” Some of the physical stuff is stuff that I find tucked into the pillows of my couch, or in a stranger’s trash can. Some of the stuff isn’t that physical, it is the stuff I read, and the podcasts and audiobooks that I listen to while I work in my studio or am cleaning my house or when I am at the grocery store or when I am laying in bed and trying to fall asleep. Please find this ever growing list of stuff here. Follow the links to other people’s stuff that I borrow. Some of their stuff is free for everyone or else can be bought at the links provided->
The stuffiness of this stuff is important to me. Consider the order of this list of stuff a random one. It’s impossible to read a list of stuff that has the text all piled up, one word on top of the other, so I had to spread it out the best I could. Imagine they are all touching. Nonetheless and nonethemore here it is, all of it, and it is for you. Enjoy.
The body of work you find on this website is made of stuff. Some of this stuff is physical stuff. Some of the physical stuff is regular “art stuff” that I buy at like Michael’s or Dick Blick or wherever. Some of the physical stuff is stuff I find in boxes labeled “FREE.” Some of the physical stuff is stuff that I find tucked into the pillows of my couch, or in a stranger’s trash can. Some of the stuff isn’t that physical, it is the stuff I read, and the podcasts and audiobooks that I listen to while I work in my studio or am cleaning my house or when I am at the grocery store or when I am laying in bed and trying to fall asleep. Please find this ever growing list of stuff here. Follow the links to other people’s stuff that I borrow. Some of their stuff is free for everyone or else can be bought at the links provided->
The stuffiness of this stuff is important to me. Consider the order of this list of stuff a random one. It’s impossible to read a list of stuff that has the text all piled up, one word on top of the other, so I had to spread it out the best I could. Imagine they are all touching. Nonetheless and nonethemore here it is, all of it, and it is for you. Enjoy.
Materials: nylon net, plastic net, cotton fiber net, soccer net, window blinds, water based acrylic silk screening ink, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, gel medium, elmer’s glue, hot glue, pva glue, glow in the dark glue, This Bridge Called My Back Writings by Radical Women of Color, a feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa, bubble wrap, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg, plastic sheets, plastic wrap, plastic bags, Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, cotton twine, extension cords, The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940 by Julian B. Carter, moving blanket, copper wire, cotton insulation, ratchet strap with no ratchet, Writings for a Liberation Psychology Chapter 1: Toward a Liberation Psychology written by Ignacio Martin-Baro and translated by Adrianne Aron, wire mesh, plastic mesh, window screen, Care Webs: Experiments in Collective Care a workshop led by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, packaging tape, masking tape, painter’s tape, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, electrical tape, clothespins, bulldog clips, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Y. Davis, bronze lamp base, lamp shade, LED light bulb, artificial sand, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Marie Brown, wax crayon, soy wax, paraffin wax, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault, headlamp, 2 AA batteries, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Claire, cardboard, snappers, US census documents, torn envelopes, Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, inkjet transfer on hot glue of Absurdity of the Carnival/The Burial of the Sardine by Francisoco Goya, inverted and sanded inkjet print on paper of engraving from The Divine Comedy: Inferno: Canto XIV by Gustave Doré, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom, nylon fiber carpet, mylar blanket, inkjet transfer on gel medium of central panel from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, dried leaves, human hair, dog hair, tennis ball fuzz, dust, dirt, tempura, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Harraway, acrylic, a coupon book, magazines, newspaper, paper flyers, used protest signs, The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, ceiling fan panels, tarp, cardboard helicopter, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, a blank greeting card with the image of a dolphin leaping from shimmering waters under a lavender sky, disposable face mask, How to Survive the End of the World a podcast by Autumn Brown and Adrienne Marie Brown, marbles, netted pouch, hand scans of a hardwood floor, ink, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fictions from Social Justice Movements compiled and edited by Adrienne Marie Brown and Walidah Imarisha, puffy paint, pvc pipe, fluorescent pigment, Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis, welding screen frame, wooden shelves, mixed metal, nylon rope, ironing board, clementine peel, dried daffodils, English ivy, dried lemons, dried oranges, shower curtain rings, cardboard bricks, styrofoam cups with bite marks, 2 steel bed frames, backdrop stand, spray paint, welding screen frame, paint bucket with 1 inch of wet grey paint inside, neon nylon string, tupperware box covered in Star Trek First Generation stickers, Mickey Mouse stickers, Ninja Turtle stickers, clementine skin, burnt paper, zip ties, a handful of land dug up in Ardmore Pennsylvania in 2018, the value of a handful of land in Ardmore Pennsylvania in 2018 according to real estate estimates per handful, a plaster cast of my body seated and bent over on top of three bankers’ boxes full of paperwork, a plaster cast of a hole I dug as deep as I am tall in a backyard in Oakland California in 2017 or 2018, I can’t remember, a t-shirt I wore for 7 days straight following a friend’s suicide in 2014 picked apart and stretched to let some light in, a four-leaf-clover floating in a pool of pine sap that has hardened and is held in my hand so the light shines through, ...