Weiskopf was one of five artists in the Spring ’24 cohort of the Keyhole Workspace Residency at ECOCA. The studio theme was ‘climate’.
Opening Reception Sunday, June 23rd, 3-5pm
"One brought fire🔥, One brought frost ❄".
This series of works, primarily made up of Palm stems and fronds were excavated from forest fires, ice storms and deforestation around the country. Some of these incidents occurred just feet from my own home.
The works in this exhibition aim to bring contemplation and new narratives between us and the earth. I believe that the notion of care cannot be separated from the notion of harmony with Nature. I consider architecture, formal elements, traditions of ancient and Indigenous art, and utilizing familiar historical craft techniques as a visual language in which to further explore critical environmental and social quandaries of our time. I aim to build consciousness and healing while emphasizing social impact alongside environmental concerns that reimagine the politics and ethics of care while drawing out a balance between artistic intervention and the raw material.
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Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, New York) creates a multifaceted body of work that shifts across mediums that include sculpture, ceramics, drawing, and photography. She received a BFA from the Hartford Art School(CT) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art(PA) /Rome, Italy. Weiskopf’s work has been featured in Artnet, Gallerist NY, DNAinfo, the Contemporist, the Brooklyn Rail and exhibited with M.David&Co(NY); David Hall Fine Art (MA); Shin Gallery(NY); Tiger Strikes Astroid; among others including Deanne Evans Projects Flatfile (2022). In 2013, the NYC D.O.T commissioned Weiskopf’s first large scale public installation, Unparallel Way. Weiskopf was nominated for the Rome Prize in 2011, awarded the Robert Rauschenberg Award 2021, Walter Hodes Memorial Award, and numerous fellowships and residencies including the Artist Pension Trust(2013), Vermont Studio Center (2011/2021), the Wassiac Project (2012) the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2023), ECOCA Keyhole Workspace (2024), Jentel (WY) 2024. She was among the 2021 ReClaim Award winners in Cologne, Germany, selected for Chico Photography Review (2022) and is currently developing a permanent public artwork with the City of Austin, Texas due to debut in 2024.
She has held Lecturing positions at Fashion Institute of Technology (NY), Monseratt College of Art(MA) and Texas State University(TX). In 2014 she was in an 18-wheeler car accident that left her with life-altering injuries and permanent mobility and cognitive constrictions that paused her practice until the end of 2019, shifting the direction of her work exponentially. Weiskopf currently lives and works in the Northeast.
