Emily Eifler
October/November 2008 Artist of the Month
Emily Eifler graduated from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2006 with a BFA in theatre, film and television. She is now a visual artist creating sculpture, video, performance and digital projects around the themes of disease, liminality, reuse, and control. Emily is currently living in San Francisco, California.
Emily asserts that her work is an effort "to bring the microscopic, the macroscopic and the otherwise unobservable to a stage on which they can be experienced and studied at a personal level. [She] am also interested in liminality, that which is in between and lacks a concrete definition; and in the inherent emptiness of objects, the space between their atoms, the emptiness of atoms themselves. My work is about exerting control over things that cannot be controlled." Emily develops these themes for work through her experience living with a neurological disorder which she says engages her in "a need to study the unknown," and then create " an artistic equivalent to the scientific method: proceeding via visual and tactile information from hypothesis to experimentation, evaluation, observation."
Emily's work has recently been featured in Washington D.C. as part of the "Green Light" juried exhibition (sponsored by Volkswagen of America, Inc. and VSA arts) at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, and the "Derivative Composition" juried exhibition (VSA arts) at the Terrace Gallery of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Please visit Emily's website at EmilyEifler.SquareSpace.com
