Poppy for Emi Wada

Em Rooney

Poppy for Emi Wada, 2020213.36 x 127 x 30.48cmSign in to view price
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blackened and welded steel, rice paper, water soluble oil paint, threadFrançois Ghebaly
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This abstract sculptural artwork features a large, circular form composed of layered and pleated fabric-like material in shades of blue and grey. The circular piece is mounted on a central metal rod, creating a striking, kinetic visual effect. The distinctive folding and layering techniques employed give the work a sense of movement and fluidity, evoking the appearance of a spinning wheel or turbine. The artwork's conceptual focus appears to be on exploring themes of transformation, energy, and the interplay of form and material. Overall, this visually arresting piece showcases the artist's skilled manipulation of unconventional materials to create a thought-provoking contemporary sculpture. ...

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Em Rooney
Artist
Em Rooney
B.1983

Em Rooney combines sculpture and photography in her practice, which orbits ideas of queerness, intimacy, anti-capitalism and communion. Seeing photographs as “too frail” to stand alone, Rooney works with pewter, plaster and resin amongst other texturally weighty materials to craft individual frames, or “containers” as she labels them for each work. As an antidote to the constant stream of images we encounter through advertising, social media and other streams of technology, Rooney’s work affords each photograph a sense of stillness and care not readily gifted to contemporary images. The ‘container’ for each work draws out the tonal intricacies of the original image. Languid, rippled pewter frames may heighten the vulnerability of a particular subject, or encasing the image in neon resin will amplify the vitality of another. Since 2020, Rooney has begun producing sculptures without photographic elements, expanding the material parameters of her practice. These large-scale sculptures are brought to life with a plethora of materials such as steel, velvet, linen, wax, rice paper and yarn. Rooney cites the work of Ree Morton, Elizabeth Murray and Lee Bontecou as key influences in developing this sumptuous and tactile quality in her sculptures, yet this entwinement with materiality has run as a constant throughout her practice. ...

Em Rooney: Artworks
Tony and Marci Kissing Near the Schoharie River
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Tony and Marci Kissing Near the Schoharie River, 2020
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Andromeda, Woman in Fiction
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Andromeda, Woman in Fiction, 2020
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Words to the Heat of Deeds
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Words to the Heat of Deeds, 2020
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Warm Violets on a Cold Urn
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Warm Violets on a Cold Urn, 2021
40.5 x 25.5cm
Carnival Scene in Lucricia Martel's La Cienega
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Carnival Scene in Lucricia Martel's La Cienega, 2020
25.4 x 34.29 x 2.54cm
My Hands by Asa
Em Rooney
My Hands by Asa, 2020
25.4 x 34.29 x 2.54cm
Jennie C. Jones at Her After Party
Em Rooney
Jennie C. Jones at Her After Party, 2020
25.4 x 34.29 x 2.54cm
Burned Fox-like in Spring
Em Rooney
Burned Fox-like in Spring, 2020
Queen of Cups
Em Rooney
Queen of Cups, 2020
213.36 x 81.28 x 40.64cm
She'll Close
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She'll Close, 2020
213.36 x 73.66 x 40.64cm
Poppy for Emi Wada
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Lady Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth, 2020
215.9 x 60.96 x 30.48cm
Wild Music, False Phrases
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Wild Music, False Phrases, 2020
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A Sheet of Paper Between the Sun and the Moon
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A Sheet of Paper Between the Sun and the Moon, 2020
Rolls-Royce inspired, on Atlantic Avenue
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Busted Mercedes NYC
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Busted Mercedes NYC, 2023
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GirlCrush in La Cienaga
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François Ghebaly
Gallery
François Ghebaly
Los Angeles, New York City

Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...

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