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Emily Nicole Gordon
Glendale CA US
Updated: 2025-12-04 19:48:04

STATEMENT OF WORK

My artistic practice is a continuous dialogue between past and present, shaped by a curiosity for place, material, and sensorial memory. Through abstraction and reconstruction, I move beyond representation to invoke embodied experiences with layered materials and evolving processes. In this way, my work bridges the personal and the collective, offering a meditation on the landscapes we inherit, alter, and remember.

 

I begin with painting, abstracting environments into dense terrains that evoke texture and memory. These compositions become textiles—dyed, sewn, and reconstructed—before returning to the landscapes that inspired them, where I document them through Super 8 film and 35mm photography. This cyclical approach allows each medium to inform the next, enabling landscapes to evolve across forms and preserving what I experience in the now.

 

At its core, my work is an exploration of the nonlinear nature of time and place. By cutting apart and sewing together painted and dyed materials, I create layered surfaces that mirror the ways landscapes shift—physically, historically, and emotionally. My practice is rooted in an interdisciplinary approach that embraces material experimentation and conceptual research. Through abstraction and process, I build a visual language centered on the fleeting, sensorial nature of memory—capturing how place is remembered, felt, and reimagined across disciplines.