Emily Payne

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Emily Payne is interested in creating work that explores the interplay between light and shadow, heft and levity, and the way objects and drawings are energized and animated by the space around them. Working with a variety of materials including wire, used book parts, found metal scraps, graphite and gouache, the two and three-dimensional pieces she makes are inspired by natural forms and the detritus around her. Searching for artifacts that reveal the pulse of a place, a piece of bent wire from a construction site or a fallen pine branch become starting points in which the currency of a place takes physical form.

She is committed to observing and digesting the natural, human, and unseen but felt rhythms around her. Creating a non-verbal language of her own, that some people seem to understand, is deeply satisfying. It remains a mystery to her how meaning is conveyed in such an exchange, and this is why he continues to follow her curiosity, and to connect and communicate through art.

Her work can be seen at Amelie Maison D’art in New York, the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley, and Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. Some of her site-specific, permanent public art pieces can be seen at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center; Stanford Medical Center in Emeryville; The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto; The Public Libraries in Hayward and Lafayette; Square HQ in San Francisco; and Guild Row in Chicago, IL. Payne received her M.F.A. in Book Arts and Printmaking from San Francisco State University. She lives and works in Berkeley, California.

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EDUCATION

San Francisco State University, MFA Printmaking and Book Arts Oberlin College, BA Honors in English and Women’s Studies

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Marrow, SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA
2022 Generation, SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA
2020 Burst, SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA
2019 New Work: STICKS GALLERY, Berkeley, CA
2018 Pentimento: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA
2017 Heave Heft | Weave Weft: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA Emily Payne: ERICA TANOV, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Emily Payne: ERICA TANOV, Berkeley, CA
2011 Full Circle: DONNA SEAGER GALLERY, San Rafael, CA 2009 Unbound: SFMOMA ARTISTS GALLERY, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Art of the Book: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA Material Matters: Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2023 Art of the Book: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA

From the Center: Maps, Wefts, Shifts, Hoops: LAUNCHPAD GALLERY, Carbondale, CO 2022 Material Matters: Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Drawing the Line: STICKS GALLERY, Berkeley, CA 2021 Art in Embassies Exhibit: DEN GALLERY, Kuwait City, Kuwait Art of the Book: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA Print Room Collection: KALA ART INSTITUTE, Berkeley, CA 2020 Material Matters: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA 2019 Fresh Marks: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA
2018 Art of the Book: SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA 2017 By the Book: KALLER FINE ARTS GALLERY, Washington, DC

SELECTED PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS/PURCHASES

2024 Fleet Wall Installation: ERICA TANOV STUDIO, Berkeley, CA
2021 Flush and Pentimento: US AMBASSADOR TO KUWAIT RESIDENCY, Kuwait City, Kuwait, Art in the Embassies, US Department of State, thru 2023
2020 Burst: a site specific permanent installation,GUILD ROW, Chicago, IL 2018 Tumble: HAYWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY, Hayward, CA
2016 Tumbleweed Installation: STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER, Emeryville, CA 2016 Where In the World: SQUARE HEADQUARTERS, San Francisco, CA 2015 Brush: EICHLER SUMMIT BUILDING, San Francisco, CA
2014 Pinwheel Series: KAISER HOSPITAL, Redwood City, CA
2014 Swim Triptych: KAISER HOSPITAL, Oakland, CA
2013 Seed: JUNIPER NETWORKS, Sunnyvale, CA
2010 Hover: GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION, Palo Alto, CA

AWARDS AND COMMENDATIONS

2025 Kala Art Institute Artist Residency, Berkeley, CA
2024 Kala Art Institute Artist Honoree, Berkeley, CA
2024 In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, CA
2019 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, Johnson, VT 2018 SIM Artist Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland 2000 Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement, SFSU, San Francisco, CA 1998 Cadogan/Murphy Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1998 Stillwell Award, SFSU, San Francisco, CA

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