Emily Somoskey is a 2-D mixed media artist and painter living in Walla Walla, Washington. Her work explores the complexity of perception through the layered use of oil paint and collaged photographic imagery. Somoskey’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, most recently at Chatwin Arts in Seattle and Hanson Howard Gallery in Ashland, Oregon. She pursued a BA in Art Education at The University of Akron and her MFA at Michigan State University. Somoskey is currently an Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Her mixed-media paintings use a balance between representation and abstraction to explore the ways we simultaneously experience physical and mental space. In combining photographic imagery with the language of abstract painting, she weaves together moments of clarity and ambiguity that both articulate and disrupt, as well as complicate, a singular understanding of the work, akin to our own perceptions of the world. Along with the discourse of historical and contemporary methods of image-making, her work branches into areas such as psychology, anthropology, material culture, humanist geography, cosmology, and the natural sciences. In reaching into these varied aspects of our world, Somoskey’s work reflects the complexity of what it means to live in our current world.
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SAVE THE DATE! Come join us for a day of collage with NWCS members! We will exchange ideas, demos and a share table. We've reserved a great room at the Sunset Hills Community Clubhouse in Ballard for this fun summer meet-up. Registration will open mid-June with more information.
Join us at 10 am for Meet & Greet before the program begins at 10:30 am.
