EMMA SAFIR creates mixed-media works incorporating digital collage, fabric smocking, and appliqué. Lush digital prints are interwoven in dazzling, often humorous arrangements, creating a dancing repartee between photographic imagery and abstraction. The works utilize their tenuous connection with photography to imply the distance between experience and memory. Vision, place, and objectivity are scrambled into blurred, dreamlike images, and soft, indecipherable forms. Safir’s work has been selected to be a part of the 20/20 Photo Festival, taking place throughout the city of Philadelphia during the month of September.
Emma Safir received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, and her MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. She has exhibited at such venues as Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT; and University Galleries at William Paterson University, Paterson, NJ; as well as many others. She is the recipient of a Critical Practice Grant from Yale School of Art, a Flair Foundation Artist Award from the Banff Center, as well as many other awards.
