Emily Somoskey

As a 2-D mixed media artist and painter, I use paint and collaged photographic imagery as a means to think through the larger questions, curiosities and areas of subjectivity that makes up our world. My work depicts the universe as a flexible space that is ever-expanding, collapsing, and colliding; along with our understanding of it. I often bring familiar subjects such as swimming pools, birds nests and lawn chairs in conversation with overarching mechanisms that make up our world, such as galaxies, orbital pathways and physics diagrams. These elements coalesce on the surface of the canvas in a way that straddles representation and abstraction, prompting the viewer to reconsider our relationship to the known world and opening up new ways of seeing and understanding our place within it. At its core, I create as a way to connect with the world beyond myself, and to visualize what it means to be a human in our current, and increasingly complex world.