Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Emily Weiskopf (b. New York ) creates a multifaceted body of work that shifts between drawing, photography, and sculpture. An exploration of abstraction and the readymade to create lyrical narratives that hover light from destruction to transcendence as an index to our collective history. Driven by personal experience and material experimentation she employs methods of transparency with color and luminosity as a means of transformation and perceptual awakening with which to engage one's perception. A pathway of consciousness leading through the material to the spiritual. Her works frequently incorporate salvaged and fragment remains from her surroundings to regenerate a process of preservation, strength, and empathy from devastation and loss. Embracing complex themes of time and transience, she often makes ephemeral work drawing on her Buddhist studies and American Transcendentalist ideas.
Weiskopf 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 has exhibited with M.David&Co(NY); David Hall Fine Art (MA); Shin Gallery(NY); among others including Deanne Evans Projects Flatfile (2022). In 2013, the NY D.O.T commissioned Weiskopf’s first large scale public installation, Unparallel Way, which debuted in conjunction with the exhibition Brooklyn Utopias. 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), Atlantic Center for the Arts(2020) and the Wassiac Project(2012). Most recently she has been award an AIPP Grant with the City of Austin, Texas in conjunction with the Emergency Medical Services and Fire Department due to debut in 2023, among the 2021 ReClaim Award winners in Cologne, Germany, and selected for Chico Photography Review (2022).
Weiskopf lives and works in Connecticut. She is a member of the Chenrezig Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia, PA where she studies and practices Buddhism. In 2014 she was in an 18-wheeler car accident that left her with life-altering injuries and permanent mobility constrictions that paused her practice and shifted the direction of her work exponentially.