Emily Hunt

Statement

In my work line is a metaphor and repetition is a tool. With these I link my own life to the materials and processes. The loom acts as a second body that holds the tension of these lines allowing me to examine how they overlap and connect to create depth, weight, and form. On the loom, I am able to visualize a personal landscape within a larger timeline. I’m interested in the ways we give and take, how a structure can reflect meaning, and what it means to be grounded. In turn this form of processing ideas in a physical way creates my minimalistic imagery that others can see themselves in.

GlogauAIR Project

As a weaver I constantly work within constraints. Over the past year I’ve started to explore how to bring my weavings off the loom but still maintain their integrity. Through this I feel more in touch with the work. It creates a translation that I physically can push, pull, twist, tangle, and dance with. While in residence I’m interested in continuing my exploration of off loom weaving. Through installations and videos I want to highlight how these woven structures relate to the structures we create for ourselves in everyday life.

Installation and Object

CV Summary

• 2022
  • Os Textile Residency, Iceland
• 2021
  • 20 Feet Within 2 Inches: A Perspective On Relief Carving With Sabiha Mujtaba, Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts, Workshop
  • Margaret L. Gongaware Scholarship
  • All School Show, Massart
  • Student Show, Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery, NY
  • Departmental Honors
  • Windgate Lamar Fellowship Nomination
• 2020
  • FA3D Student Show, DMC Massart
  • Barbara L. Kuhlman Scholarship
• 2019
  • The Paper Show, student gallery at Massart

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