John Emison

Thesis Exhibition: April 2 - 5, 2014

Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 6 - 8:30pm

In two months I will install an MFA thesis exhibition in a university gallery space. I will install for two days and it will be open four days. The walls are white, the floors hardwood, and the space I have been assigned will have three points of entry. Two lead to conjoined galleries and one has a door leading to the gallery’s administrative offices. One wall of the space reaches from the floor to the ceiling, one from the floor to a window to the ceiling, one from the floor to a point below the ceiling (on the other side of that wall will be a fellow student with whom I shared another wall between our studios which also didn’t reach the ceiling) and one wall which has yet to be constructed and will subdivide the large space of the gallery into my space and the space for another fellow artist (her studio is upstairs and we have yet to share a wall). The window is long and narrow and faces east where the sun rises over the Philadelphia Housing Authority Norris Apartments. The gallery is in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture building at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.   

Falling horizontally
2013
Interior house paint and pencil on plywood, aluminum, in a windowless room with a red box and masking tape
60” x 37.7” x 1.5”

Falling horizontally
2013
Interior house paint and pencil on plywood, aluminum
60” x 37.7” x 1.5”