EMILY SILVER
Emily Silver is an artist working across textiles, sculpture, and installation who lives and works in Los Angeles. Beginning with processes of tracing, translation, and material transformation, her sculptural weavings translate language into structure. Silver embeds text, coded symbols, and shifting materials to produce forms that move between legibility and abstraction, where humor and grief sit uncomfortably close. Shaped by experiences of loss, bodily change, and broader instability, Silver’s work engages labor as a form of endurance. Fibers are bound, layered, and reworked through time-intensive processes that register care and persistence rather than resolution. Her work has been exhibited widely, including exhibitions at Eastern Star Gallery, Spring Break Art Fair, Lazy Eye Gallery, BravinLee, DMST Atelier, and The Quick Center for the Arts. Silver’s research is informed by material-based learning and residency experiences at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Fondazione Lisio, and the Icelandic Textile Center. In 2023, she received the Change Agent Award from NCORE. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University School of Visual Art and her BFA from School of Visual Arts in NYC.
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