“Swimming Cities, From Spy’s
Perspective,” Juxtapoz Art & Culture
Magazine, December 21, 2009.
Dr. HAL Robins (Church of the SubGenius) says: Spy Emerson is an accomplished practicioner of the graphic and plastic arts. For years her metier has been what can be best described by her slogan, "Making Something from Nothing." Though in a sense this could be said of all art, Spy's specialty is synthesis. As she achieves effects essentially more profound than simple satire and social criticism, the "nothing" she employs as raw material is really our unnoticed trash, the cast-off leavings of a civilization undergoing enforced technological mutation. The resulting work serves the lyric and decorative functions of art as it adds to the didactic voice of the art of our times. It insists, as Dr. Nicole Archer has written, "...that we recognize the ethics implied in our relationships with such detritus... [and] see the beauty inherent in these items...." A contributor to JUXTAPOZ magazine and a boldly inventive Performance Artist, Spy's numerous and playful works include stage shows of dance and drama, collage and assemblage of found materials, photography, painting, film and video.
Dr. HAL Robins (Church of the SubGenius) says: Spy Emerson is an accomplished practicioner of the graphic and plastic arts. For years her metier has been what can be best described by her slogan, "Making Something from Nothing." Though in a sense this could be said of all art, Spy's specialty is synthesis. As she achieves effects essentially more profound than simple satire and social criticism, the "nothing" she employs as raw material is really our unnoticed trash, the cast-off leavings of a civilization undergoing enforced technological mutation. The resulting work serves the lyric and decorative functions of art as it adds to the didactic voice of the art of our times. It insists, as Dr. Nicole Archer has written, "...that we recognize the ethics implied in our relationships with such detritus... [and] see the beauty inherent in these items...." A contributor to JUXTAPOZ magazine and a boldly inventive Performance Artist, Spy's numerous and playful works include stage shows of dance and drama, collage and assemblage of found materials, photography, painting, film and video.
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