Hi, I'm Emery.
I'm an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and maker based in Dayton, Ohio. My background is rooted in printmaking, painting, and digital media, and my practice has expanded over time to include fabrication, design, teaching, and creative technology.
I received a B.S. in Art from Skidmore College in 2020 concentrating in printmaking & digital media, and continued my printmaking training in Tamarind Institute's Printer Training Program. Since then, I've worked as a collaborative printer, artist assistant, educator, and freelance designer, including positions at Flatbed Press and a fellowship at Penland School of Craft.
My current work explores observation, memory, and connection to place. Alongside my studio practice, I enjoy helping artists and organizations bring ideas to life through design, digital tools, and creative problem-solving. Whether I'm painting, designing a website, fabricating an object, or learning a new technique, I'm drawn to the ways creative work can deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
Artist Statement
My work is rooted in close observation. Through printmaking, painting, and material experimentation, I use art-making as a way of paying attention—to the body, to the self, to memory, and increasingly to the landscapes and environments I inhabit.
My early work focused on self-portraiture and navigating identity, embodiment, and transition. Through printmaking, particularly lithography, I developed a practice of careful looking and sustained scrutiny, using my own image as a means of understanding my experience and place in the world. Much of this work emerged from my experience as a transgender man and from a desire to reconcile the physicality of being with my internal sense of self. Over time, the careful observation I once directed toward my own body has expanded outward toward the landscapes and environments around me. While the subject matter has changed, the underlying questions of presence, perception, and connection continue to guide my practice.
Working in encaustic, print, and layered surfaces, I am drawn to processes that accumulate slowly over time. My paintings often begin with direct observation of the natural world, but become transformed through memory, repetition, and material exploration. Rather than documenting a specific place, I am interested in how sustained attention can deepen our connection to it.
At the center of my practice is a belief that looking closely matters. Whether examining the contours of a figure, the texture of a weathered surface, or the shifting forms of a landscape, I use making as a way to slow down, investigate, and cultivate a greater sense of presence. Through this process, I seek not only to understand my relationship to the world around me, but to invite viewers into their own moments of reflection and connection.