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Artist Statement
My paintings take place on defining surfaces: the planes of walls and the confines
of objects, the edges that delineate in space where one thing stops and the
rest of the world begins. I use this two-dimensional edge of the three-dimensional
world as a setting for other, similar intersections - combinations and re-combinations
of stencils and silhouettes, creatures, shapes, and logo-like forms condensed
into perpetual flatness.
Flatness in my work is the great equalizer. Any surface is subject to become
a stage, and on that stage images are left with only their boundaries for the
viewer to read. In these paintings, reading is everything, since their flatness
contains sometimes the shell of a narrative and sometimes its edges. This distinction
is important, since the difference between the shell and the edge is the difference
between skinning a cat and slicing one. In this way, although the silhouettes
in my paintings are the simplest images to read, they often present the most
elaborate abstractions.
Emily L. Joyce Education
1994-1998
BFA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
1996
Glasgow
School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2003 |
“Four Deep”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York. “Operation ERACER”, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
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| 2001 | "Sleepwalking",
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota. "Gutters", Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
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| 2000 | "Smoke",
Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York. "Intimate Abstraction", Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada. |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2002 |
“Supersized”, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Los Angeles, California. "Domino Party," Glassbox, Paris, France, and Attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. (Intervention with Frank David). |
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| 2001 | "Out
Line", ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas. "Core Exhibition", Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. |
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| 2000 | "Ten",
Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas. “Core Exhibition”, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. |
Honors
| 2001-02 | Resident artist, Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | |
| 1999-2001 | 1999-2001 Core Fellow, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. |
Collections
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
Chambers Hotel, New York
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., New York
The Minute Maid Company, Houston
Selected Bibliography
Cassel, Valerie. Emily Joyce: Painting By The Numbers, essay for exhibition
brochure, 2003.
Frank, Peter. “Supersized”, LA Weekly, Volume 24, Number 39. August
16-22, 2002. p. 147.
Colpitt, Frances. "Report from San Antonio, Jewel in the Rough", Art
in America, February 2002. p. 61.
Colpitt, Frances. "Emily Joyce at Inman", Art in America, No. 9, September
2001. p. 160.
Anspon, Catherine D. "10 Year Anniversary Exhibition - Inman Gallery,"
Art Lies, Fall, 2000, Texas Art Journal #28. pp. 102-103.
Colpitt, Frances. "Report from Houston, Space City Takes Off", Art
in America, October, 2000. pp. 69
Lumpkin, Libby. "Emily Joyce: Intimate Abstractions." Exhibition essay,
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Contact
Information
333 West 18th Street
Houston, TX 77008
713-446-2672
emljoyce@hotmail.com
