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Emily Joyce
Well Beth

2021

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Grounded in her unique aesthetic, often paired with Renaissance art historical references, Joyce’s practice features highly trained skill matched by wit. In RGBs and See I’m Okays, Joyce’s carefully formed cursive script curls throughout each work, in what the artist considers a sentimental gesture to the viewer. The text itself references poetry written by Joyce during the darkest days of lockdown solitude, where painting temporarily ceased. Through her transportive and at times melancholic poetry, Emily Joyce sets a cautiously optimistic tone. Evocative in imagery and language, Joyce balances the personal and cathartic against the potential of subjective interpretation. In Well Beth (2021), deep reds and radiant fuchsia contrast against violet and neon yellow in a nearly symmetrical composition that invokes femininity alongside measured geometry. Humor and tempo are touchstones of Emily Joyce’s artistic sensibility, which she uses to create visual rhythm across works. Combining moments of visual abstraction with poetics, RGBs and See I’m Okays represents Emily Joyce’s alchemic abilities, as she divulges her own illuminated manuscripts, translated into conceptually manifold paintings.
  • Creator:
    Emily Joyce (1976, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Denver, CO
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: EJ 221371stDibs: LU1964210406822

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