Open Studio

Artist currently represented by Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York.

EDUCATION

California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. MFA, Studio Art, 2004
Bard College, New York, BA, Art and History departments, 2000

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

4,000 Km from the Mouth, Klaus Von Nichtssagend, NYC, 2009
Slidepool, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, June 2006
The Sound of the Baskervilles, D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA. March 2004
Emily Newman, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, December, 2000

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Freeze Frame, Miami Basel
Akklimitizatsia, CAG Gallery, St Petersburg, 2008
Moscow Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2008
Public Park, Scoop, Los Angeles, October 2007
Notes from the Overpass; Art from St Petersburg and Los Angles, Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland, Summer 2007
Force of Nature, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, January 2007
Hot and Cold Rooms, Los Angeles, September 2006
Summer Suite, Glendale College of Art, Los Angeles, June 2006
The Picture is the Problem, Pelham Arts Center, New York, March 2005
Multiples, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, Dec 2004
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, Nov 2004
Supersonic, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, May-Aug 2004
Experimental Video and Performance Evening, Dangerous Curve Gallery, Los Angeles, April 2004
Material:Process, Claremont College, Pomona, CA July-August 2003.

REVIEWS

Los Angeles Times, 21 June, 2004. Christopher Knight “Artworks with wattage”.

PUBLICATIONS

Artforum Intl, Boris Turetsky, Art4.ru, Moscow, September, 2008
Artforum Intl, Thaw—St Petersburg’s Marble Palace, review, April 2007
Artforum Intl, coverage of the 2nd Moscow Biennale, Summer 2007
Artforum Intl, coverage of Time of Storytellers, Kiasma, Helsinki, Fall 2007

GRANTS/AWARDS

2005-2007 Fulbright Fellowship to teach at Smolny College, St Petersburg
2003 CalArts Fellowship for completion of MFA
2002 CalArts Fellowship for completion of MFA
2000 Undergraduate Award ‘Best Project’ in Department of History, Bard College
 

Press release from exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York, January 9-February 15, 2009

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to present a solo show by Emily Newman titled 4,000 km. From the Mouth, a work of seven videos on four channels.

In 2004 Emily Newman moved from New York City to St. Petersburg, Russia on a Fullbright grant. 4,000 km. From the Mouth is the culmination of 3 1/2 years exploring a description of the cultural experience from a single perspective of both a resident and an outsider. After several years in Russia, Newman began to feel the impulse to respond to her physical and cultural surroundings. Critical of authoritative touristic narrations, she has instead presented seven videos shown simultaneously informing each other, allowing the viewer to move freely in and around each work.

The explorations manifest in scenes of St. Petersburg street traffic, Soviet-era weekend homes (Dachas) in a post-Soviet context, exhibits in a Russian ethnographic museum, and footage of Newman's own son in a Russian nursery school. Cultural access is of key importance to each exploration, and Newman attempts different ways to break through the barrier of her own outsider status. One entry point is through her toddler son who, having been born after her arrival in Russia, has been raised more fully immersed in the culture, complete with a Russian nanny and Russian schooling. Another access point is through her Russian friends and students, who Newman enlists to directly shoot footage as an attempt to see through their eyes. Ultimately she finds that these multiple vantages and explorations are most successful when seen together.

Emily Newman currently lives and works in St. Petersberg, Russia. She holds a bachelor's degree from Bard College, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She has exhibited in the United States and Europe. This is her second show with the gallery.

Slidepool

June 17 - July 16, 2006
Opening Reception: June 16, 7-9PM
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition for sculptor and video artist Emily Newman. Newman's art is created by animating original video and found film clips. Her work encourages the viewer to see nature as staged. This exhibition will feature a video installation running 3 minutes 40 seconds.

Ebbing and flowing ocean waves are the subject of Newman’s video. The motion of the waves is enhanced by a classical music composition that sonically mimicks waves rolling and crashing. At times, however, the music and the visuals seem out of synch. Newman destabilizes the viewer’s perception of the oceans natural grace by cutting back and forth between a pool she has created and is manually manipulating, an animation of her own, and footage of the ocean crashing against the rocks. Alternating cuts show the ocean being pulled by a group of animated blue dots, then by Newman’s own hand, and then by natural forces. By juxtaposing these situations there is a physical shift in the viewers understanding of the visual phenomena.

Emily Newman received her MFA from CalArts in 2004. In June she will exhibit a video installation at the Glendale College Gallery in Los Angeles California. Currently she is living in St. Petersburg Russia working from a year long Fulbright scholarship.