Emily Silver

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ARTIST STATEMENT

My work embodies a fascination with how physical, psychological, atmospheric and spiritual experiences in land can translate into two dimensions through the breadth of possibility of water-based media.

Having grown up among a family of geologists and artists whose ancestors took part in the settling of the West, my deep affinity is for the desert. I satisfy my longing for desert topographies by revisiting psychological and metaphysical memories and sensations through the action of paint.

My practice-a cycle of walking, collecting, mapping, and painting-is continually inspired and renewed by specific places in Nevada's Basin and Range area and the Mojave.