Emily Carpintero

Was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1994 and studied for a BFA in Visual Arts at Rutgers University. Carpintero has exhibited work in the US including recent shows at Tempest Gallery in Ridgewood, NY, Field Projects Gallery in Chelsea, New York, The Newark Public Library and Halsey Art Center in Newark, New Jersey, and Mana Contemporary in Chicago, Illinois. Carpintero has also participated in recent art vendor events at The Newark Museum of Art and 334 Broome Gallery in The Bowery, NY. Her published works include a self-published zine “Vaguely” and features in The Mobile Library and Protest Magazine. Carpintero lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Artist Statement

Through an intimate lens I explore themes relating to mental and emotional states including depression, anxiety, recollection, and dissociation. I am interested in feelings and memories and the ways we act on, hold on to, change, or mute them. My work blends painting and photography to create contrasting senses of strangeness and familiarity. Mainly working with self-portraits, some common motifs used to communicate the psychological undertones are black and white imagery, distorted or faceless heads, desolate spaces, heavy textures, and white noise. Other subject matters and influences include text as imagery and natural and architectural landscapes showing signs of age, vulnerability, or abandonment.