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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.
EDUCATION
San Francisco State University, MFA Printmaking and Book Arts Oberlin College, BA Honors in English and Women’s Studies
SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)
2024
Marrow, SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, Mill Valley, CA2022 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, CAEmily 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
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
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
COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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
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
Swim Triptych: KAISER HOSPITAL, Oakland, CA
2013
Seed: JUNIPER NETWORKS, Sunnyvale, CA
2010
Hover: GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION, Palo Alto, CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
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
Cadogan/Murphy Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Stillwell Award, SFSU, San Francisco, CA
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