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EXHIBITIONS ~
EMILY BARLETTA BIOGRAPHY ARTIST STATEMENT
BIOGRAPHY
Emily was born in 1981 in Utah on a waterbed and raised in a small town in central Pennsylvania. She received a B.F.A. in Fibers at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where she has been working as an artist assistant for the past few years.
ARTIST
STATEMENT
Emily's current body of work consists of small crocheted forms that are accumulated and assembled to create larger pieces that reference imaginary body structures. The artist states, “I have a spinal disease that has always been a present and physically painful force in my life. The majority of my art stems from this fact, but to say that I make artwork as therapy would be untrue. I make artwork and it is therapeutic. This is the same to say that I make art and I am in pain; instead of saying I make art because I am in pain. I cannot separate these ideas. The objects that result from this are the invented anatomical structures of my imagination and my biology. These structures relate to cells, veins, organs, skin, blood, and bones. But they tend to express themselves as flowers, plants, tubes, topography, diseases, bacteria, growths, mold, and organisms. They spread, spill, leak, and grow their way into existence through yarn and a crochet hook.” |
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