Emily Wisniewski
Statement
Through this variety of vehicles, I combine traditional painting rules with synthetic and natural materials to express the contemporary juxtaposition of capitalism and the environment. I paint biologically female humanoid figures in caves, desserts, and forests. I work in painting as a two-dimensional space. I paint in oil mixed with beeswax, marble powder, found materials, and flashe. I work on different surfaces drawing on recycled paper, wood panels, and linen.
With expressive mark-making and gestures of objects, I create a sense of movement which makes the viewer experience a moment rather than a depiction of factual events. The people in the caves become characters that are impoverished women experiencing their environment directly. They are in a state of transformation or labor inhabiting spaces of capitalism marked on the outside frame. Thus, reality and dream, capitalism, gender, and environment collide to become materials and forms.
LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA) Students