Dale emmart
118 Chambers St
NY, NY 10007
646.932.0086
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Statement
Turbulence, Atmosphere, Weather, Surrounded, Distance, Rain, Harbinger, Invasive, Invisible, Epic, Common
This list, give or take, regularly asserts itself while I work. It is like a chant repeated to validate spending time on drafting the invisible common air, through the urgency of depicting smoke, plumes of exhaust, weather fronts, or degrees of pollution in inhaled and exhaled mists. Painting and drawing outdoors from a position where I can observe active open sky accelerates every graphic response I rely on as well as reveals what is necessary to revisit or to learn in order to capture the ordinary as something more potent . The challenge to chart weather, as fact or as metaphor is an ancient occupation. By scrutiny, reaction, reduction, and brooding on the atmospheric moment in order to highlight a victim, as in, our air, I address the invasive problem of climate in my landscapes.
Bio
Dale Emmart: born in NYC. She earned BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from RISD. Between degrees, Emmart lived and worked in San Francisco and Boston, was employed as a Printmaker, and taught Art at The Commonwealth School. She moved to New York in 1983 and began teaching at various private schools including the Brearley School where she was Head of the Art Department for eight years. Since 1984 she has been an instructor of drawing and painting as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University, Parsons School of Design, Brooklyn College, and The New York Institute of Technology. She has taught landscape painting, plein air workshops in Scotland, The Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in France, Art New England, and she founded and co-directs, Plein Air Portugal, a retreat for painters and photographers in Northern Portugal. Emmart has exhibited in New England, the midwest, up-state New York, New York City, Pennsylvania and her work is in public and private collections in the United States and Europe. She has been in residence at The Virginia Center for the Arts and The MacDowell Colony. Emmart was a recipient of a NYFA Grant in Painting and an Artist Workspace Grant from The Dieu Donne Papermill.