Emily Payne
Emily Payne creates elegantly simple site-specific installations, delicate wire forms, and works on paper. Into these three-dimensional “drawings,” she incorporates everyday materials: pins and wire, torn bits of paper, gouache paint, pencil, ink, book parts, shoe parts, and rag paper. She discovers her materials in discarded objects by taking apart and then reassembling them, “in an effort to get down to the essence of the thing.”
“I come upon vibrant colors, subtle textures and unusual shapes in the most unlikely places, and I take great pleasure in revealing hidden surfaces such as the backs of book covers or other objects that are rarely, if ever, seen.”
Payne earned her MFA in printmaking and book arts from San Francisco State University. She works and lives in Berkeley, California.
