ABOUT EMILY L. JOSEPH

 

My work is a simple example of raw emotions at times. I want the user to have their own insight into my work and not for me to dictate.  The feeling is theirs. As a survivor, for years my art was personal and silent. Covid gave me a new voice and the current struggle for women's rights made it louder.

 

I have been drawing since age 4. My background is BFA and an MFA in painting with minors in ceramics, design and printmaking.  Drawn to shapes, color and planes. A black box is a black box but put a jagged red line and it becomes an emotion.

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The execution and development of my work centers around the user of "Objective Correlative". This can be a situation or chain of events that symbolizes or objectifies a particular emotion, in addition, the artistic technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it.