Chloë Feldman Emison has shown her drawings widely in the United States and Europe, while also making animations (stop-motion) and illustrations. She studied fine art at Williams College and at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and animation at Forkbeard Fantasy in Devon. She was a visiting artist at Wasps Studios in Glasgow, and completed residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center in Woodside, N.Y., at The Old School Art House in Iceland, at the Vermont Studio Center, and at Can Serrat, near Barcelona. In 2013 she taught animation at the Eagle Hill School in Hardwick, Massachusetts. She has collaborated with the Elements Contemporary Ballet company in Chicago on the design of a new ballet about Atlantis slated for 2016. She was named the Mixed Media Artist of the Year for 2009 at the Cambridge Art Association, won a Spotlight on the Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist in 2010, and a Board of Trustees Award from the Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut (2014).
My basic project is to explore the sometimes disturbing, sometimes humorous, universally recognizable contingencies of corporeality. I make drawings (pen and ink, or watercolor and inks, sometimes metallic, sometimes with gold leaf, sometimes with coffee or glue or glass glitter) that ultimately depend on close observation of nature, although in most cases they show that which could never have actually been observed. I seek to find a new kind of beauty within what might seem ugly, in place of a more normalized and routine kind of beauty.
Media Gallery
dip pen and inkdip pen and ink, gold leafpen and ink, washpen and inkpen and inks (including metallic) and watercolorpen and inks and watercolorpen and inks and watercolor and art markerpen and ink and watercolorpen and inkpart of a series on the theme, Tulipomania
