Emily resides in Raleigh, NC where she is working on her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her concentration is Drawing.
Artist Statement
My obsession with drawing started as a child. While others where outside playing, I was inside drawing. I would always pause a movie on the television and draw as fast as I could what I was seeing on the screen. I would do this for hours. Where others would be writing notes from the teacher's lectures, I would be drawing key words. Drawing was and is my life. I am obsessed with the way the pen or pencil glides across a surface and the mark it makes. I am interested in the way a mark can transform an empty space.
My work deals with obsession; obsession with drawing; mark-making, mechanical devices, food and the body. Obsession is perfection. Often painters, sculptors, printmakers and other artists start off with drawings. Artists use drawings to give them an idea of how to start a project; they are generally a part of the process. Drawing is my entire process. I am obsessed with perfecting the beginning sketch that often, other artists discard.
"Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
The chaotic world of Fraggle - Rock and PeeWee's Playhouse, the realist and surrealist worlds of Roger Rabbit and Pete's Dragon; the disturbing nature of the Garbage Pail Kids and BeetleJuice; the micro vs. the macro in childhood toys; Micro Machines and Legos; and the narrative elements brought through Mad magazines and comic books, have all engulfed my mind as a child and permanently influenced my work as an adult.
