Dale Emmart

Dale Emmart

'Blocks' 5 x 7”

handmade paper wrapped panels: pulp, ink, collage and gouache elements. (Installed on a shelf, ‘ Block ‘ images are doubled sided and a viewer can alter their arrangement.)

These handmade paper wrapped panels use multiple themes in small scale to stretch across space. Delicate and diarist in attitude, the work's accumulative installation suggests a sensation of muffled chatter, talk, undercurrents and adjustment. Arranged sequentially on a shelf, individual blocks become unified into a set. Collected into a line allows scrutiny, emphasizing obsessive marks and magnifying delicate irregularities. Repetition of the common with the irregular generates a conversation, a sentence that can be rearranged at any moment, broken off and reasserted.

Dale Emmart

C: 917 207 1178 / H: 212 362 7724

Dale Emmart was born in NYC, grew up in New Jersey. Graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in 1975 with a BFA and received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1983. In between degrees lived and worked in San Francisco and Boston, employed as a Printmaker and teacher at The Commonwealth School in Boston. Moved to New York to open a large studio space and began teaching at many private schools as an art instructor: The Allen-Stevenson School, The Cathedral School, The Nightingale-Bamford School, and The Brearley School. Since 1984 has been an instructor of drawing and painting as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University, The Parsons School of Design, The Rhode Island School of Design, Brooklyn College, and New York Institute of Technology. Emmart has exhibited widely in New England, the mid-west, up-state New York, Pennsylvania, New York City, and her work is in many public and private collections in the United States and Europe. She received residencies at The MacDowell Colony in 1986 and The Virginia Center for the Arts in 1988. She was awarded a NYFA Grant in Painting in 1994 and an Artist Workspace Grant in 1996 from The Dieu Donne Papermill. Since 1997 Emmart has taught landscape painting workshops in Scotland, Paris, The Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany and Art New England at Bennington College. In January of 2009 The John Davis Gallery in Hudson New York exhibited new work in oil and on paper in a solo exhibition. Emmart curated her first exhibition, 'Incremental / Modular" at the Alliance Gallery in Narrowsburg, New York in May 2009. Works were include a three-person show of panel paintings at The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in March 2010 where Emmart lectured about her work on paper and panel.