Alex Emmons | For Rosalie: Eggcups and More
For Rosalie: Eggcups and More is a personal yet celebratory portfolio created by 60+ artists in remembrance of her mother, Rosalie Emmons. Rosalie was born in Panama and resided in a number of places thereafter from Salt Lake City, Utah to Aberdeen, Maryland. She resided the longest in a small village in upstate New York, called Middleburgh, and then until her passing in Tucson, Arizona. She was an avid bird watcher and enjoyed the great outdoors, which she explored via car camping trips throughout her life.
Rosalie had two children, Alex and Amze, she was their first art teacher and definitely the source for both of them becoming artists as adults. Rosalie also was a fiber artist, she knitted, crocheted, embroidered, made 80% of her own clothing, as well as quilted. She had a very large egg cup collection that she found in flea markets, which was the reason for adding that to print exchange title. Rosalie had two, green thumbs and made so many things come to life with little effort. In Tucson, her backyard oasis was defined largely by a goldfish pond surrounded by native plants and in upstate New York she had 2 acre a seasonal garden. All of these factors were influences for the themes that all the participating artists incorporated for creating their prints for this celebratory project.
This collection of prints by 68 different artists touch on themes of Nature, Landscape, Birds, Human & Animal Migration, Farming & Sustainability, Craft & Feminist Traditions, Material culture (the way objects contain stories), and Loss & Remembering.
Artist Video fetures insights by participating artists: Alex Emmons, Reuben Castillo, Matt Neff, Rosemary Kate Jesionowski and Laurie Blakeslee
Video of Artist Talk
Thursday, November 19th, 7:00 PM EST
Artist Bio
Alex Emmons is an artist and educator. She received her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2005 and BA in Studio Art from Denison University in 1996. Emmons grew up in rural upstate New York surrounded by the Catskill Mountains and her parent’s 16-year renovation project; these hallmarks continue to inform her creative intuition today.
Emmons has taught art and photography at a variety of institutions including Arizona State University, Central Washington University, Boise State University, Eastern Carolina University, New Mexico State University, and University of Oklahoma; and has given Visiting Artist lectures at numerous colleges and universities. She has studied and taught abroad in Italy, France, Ecuador, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark.
She has shown her photography in both solo and group exhibitions. This year, she completed a portfolio exchange tributing her mom’s creative life, called “For Rosalie: Eggcups & more” consisting of more than 75 artworks. In 2016, her work was featured in a two-person show entitled “House & Garden” at the MAINSITE Gallery in Norman, Oklahoma. Recent solo exhibitions include Tarleton State University in Stephensville, Texas, Visual Arts Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Santa Fe University of Art & Design. Emmons is the recipient of various grants, honors and awards.
Emmons works with a range of photo media, from 19th century photographic methods to current digital image-making. Her projects are inspired by memories, intuition, and personal history which she incorporates to connect with her audience.
https://www.alexemmons.com/