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Emily Silver- Artist Statement The watery veils, flows, and drainage patterns interacting with horizons and vestiges of maps in my work evoke a sense of geological landscape time-worn by erosionary processes. Even though maplike in feel, these paintings appeal to the viewer’s tactile and emotional sense of paint and place. I was raised in a family of geologists and artists and my ancestors took part in the settling and mapping of the West. To them the American desert was a beguiling but dangerous crossing where tests of survival and spiritual transformation walked hand-in-hand. This is the provenance of my tremendous affinity for the desert. I spend significant time there: walking, making intuitive maps, drawing, collecting sediment, creating spontaneous site works, and taking photographs. Back in the studio, prompted by these souvenirs, the act of painting confirms and conjures remembered physical as well as emotional and spiritual experiences of terrain. In fact, the process of coaxing pigment and sediment suspended in water gradually evolves into my subject matter. With paint as land I’m navigating between what’s ordered and knowable and what’s chaotic and unpredictable, exploring possibilities of inferred, imagined, and implied landscape, constantly surprised at the way my soulful relationship with desert enables watercolor’s visceral conceptual vocabulary to reveal itself. This cyclic discipline soothes my sense of longing. Resume Exhibitions Solo:
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