GREENHOUSE
EMILY ZUCH
September 22 - October 26TH
Opening Reception - Wednesday September 22nd, 6 to 8pm
July, Oil on board, 50 x 50 inches, 2021
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ARTIST STATEMENT
The paintings in this exhibition are all made from observation in and of my studio. In these paintings, I take various elements and rearrange them. Set-ups grow and then disperse, the elements are reused but take on different roles in different arrangements from piece to piece. The objects generally stay in one place but the view outside the window changes each day, and in most of them I paint myself painting. Things are both moving and still. Or they move very slowly, like a plant.
The idea of a greenhouse came to mind as an analogy for these paintings, and for the experience of being in the studio making them. A greenhouse is above all a place where things grow. It is closed, separate from the world around it, but lets copious light in. It’s both more connected and more separate from the outer world than a regular room. It can be uncomfortable to stand for too long in a greenhouse, but that heat and humidity is necessary to make things grow that wouldn’t necessarily do so outside.
ARTIST BIO
Emily Zuch is an observational painter who works from elaborate set-ups in her studio. She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and an MFA from New York Studio School in 2011. Emily was granted a Fulbright Research and Study award in Painting and Printmaking to Germany in 2014, where she was an artist in residence at the theater Lindfels Westflugel.
Emily has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and received grants such as the Hohenberg Travel Award. Emily has attended art residencies including Yaddo, Jentel Foundation, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Chautauqua. She currently teaches at Pratt Institute, Wagner College, and Borough of Manhattan Community College. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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