Classic Cars West is proud to present a solo exhibition by up-and-coming Oakland painter, Emma Webster. Webster’s work has always challenged the classical limits of painting and this new series is a dramatic departure from those bonds. In Wild Like Wanting, Webster refashions traditional landscape painting and allows a fresh discourse with the unknown to enter the work. Her free-form idyllic scenes explore communion with nature in an attempt to find answers about the creative and sublime. The massive paintings hearken to a romantic age, when we searched for inspiration, meaning, and transcendence in nature. Within Webster’s verdant greens we find mystery, danger, and temptation, both savage and familiar. Like the shock of awe itself, the atmospheric scenes are unknowable and inhospitable.
Wild Like Wanting’s abstract tapestries are magnets that pull subjective imagery and colors into the space through the veiled force of painting. Yearning to fill the void and find answers, a certain horror vaccui fuels the paintings, which are saturated with expressive marks and remnants of the artist. We uncover visual windows within the paintings, and unable to resolve what lies beyond these portals, we are left to linger at their thresholds—projecting our imaginations onto what lies beyond.
About the Artist: Emma Webster is an emerging Oakland painter who graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a BA in art practice. Recently, she was awarded residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Mich., and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. Her work has also been featured on online publications like Fresh Paint, Artsy, and Maake Magazine. More information and samples of her artwork can be found at https://www.emmawebster.com.
Exhibition Details:
August 7 – September 26, 2015
Press Preview: Thursday, August 6th, 6 – 8pm
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7th, 6 – 9pm
Second Reception: Friday, September 4th, 6 – 9pm
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Wild Like Wanting’s abstract tapestries are magnets that pull subjective imagery and colors into the space through the veiled force of painting. Yearning to fill the void and find answers, a certain horror vaccui fuels the paintings, which are saturated with expressive marks and remnants of the artist. We uncover visual windows within the paintings, and unable to resolve what lies beyond these portals, we are left to linger at their thresholds—projecting our imaginations onto what lies beyond.
About the Artist: Emma Webster is an emerging Oakland painter who graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a BA in art practice. Recently, she was awarded residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Mich., and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. Her work has also been featured on online publications like Fresh Paint, Artsy, and Maake Magazine. More information and samples of her artwork can be found at https://www.emmawebster.com.
Exhibition Details:
August 7 – September 26, 2015
Press Preview: Thursday, August 6th, 6 – 8pm
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7th, 6 – 9pm
Second Reception: Friday, September 4th, 6 – 9pm
Classic Cars West is proud to present a solo exhibition by up-and-coming Oakland painter, Emma Webster. Webster’s work has always challenged the classical limits of painting and this new series is a dramatic departure from those bonds. In Wild Like Wanting, Webster refashions traditional landscape painting and allows a fresh discourse with the unknown to enter the work. Her free-form idyllic scenes explore communion with nature in an attempt to find answers about the creative and sublime. The massive paintings hearken to a romantic age, when we searched for inspiration, meaning, and transcendence in nature. Within Webster’s verdant greens we find mystery, danger, and temptation, both savage and familiar. Like the shock of awe itself, the atmospheric scenes are unknowable and inhospitable.
Wild Like Wanting’s abstract tapestries are magnets that pull subjective imagery and colors into the space through the veiled force of painting. Yearning to fill the void and find answers, a certain horror vaccui fuels the paintings, which are saturated with expressive marks and remnants of the artist. We uncover visual windows within the paintings, and unable to resolve what lies beyond these portals, we are left to linger at their thresholds—projecting our imaginations onto what lies beyond.
About the Artist: Emma Webster is an emerging Oakland painter who graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a BA in art practice. Recently, she was awarded residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Mich., and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. Her work has also been featured on online publications like Fresh Paint, Artsy, and Maake Magazine. More information and samples of her artwork can be found at https://www.emmawebster.com.
Exhibition Details:
August 7 – September 26, 2015
Press Preview: Thursday, August 6th, 6 – 8pm
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7th, 6 – 9pm
Second Reception: Friday, September 4th, 6 – 9pm
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Wild Like Wanting’s abstract tapestries are magnets that pull subjective imagery and colors into the space through the veiled force of painting. Yearning to fill the void and find answers, a certain horror vaccui fuels the paintings, which are saturated with expressive marks and remnants of the artist. We uncover visual windows within the paintings, and unable to resolve what lies beyond these portals, we are left to linger at their thresholds—projecting our imaginations onto what lies beyond.
About the Artist: Emma Webster is an emerging Oakland painter who graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a BA in art practice. Recently, she was awarded residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Mich., and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. Her work has also been featured on online publications like Fresh Paint, Artsy, and Maake Magazine. More information and samples of her artwork can be found at https://www.emmawebster.com.
Exhibition Details:
August 7 – September 26, 2015
Press Preview: Thursday, August 6th, 6 – 8pm
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7th, 6 – 9pm
Second Reception: Friday, September 4th, 6 – 9pm
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Classic Cars West Gallery
411 26th Street, Oakland, CA 94611
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