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EMMA WILCOX

Fine Art Photographer

Projects

  • Forensic Landscapes

       

  • Where It Falls

Documentation

  • Statements

    In forensics, the absence of something can signify its presence. As reported in the Times, the chemical stain left by a body’s amino acids will suppress plant growth for up to two years, allowing a kind of shadow to remain after the thing casting it is gone. On maps, the edge of a place vanishes and reappears.  So do tracks, roads and the original names of things.   There are no indications as to actual habitation, climate, degree of violence or calm, or even whether the area is land or water. But the land is marked heavy. It is dense chemically, visually, textually. This density of markings includes human bodies, geological timekeeping, stories told in bars, news archives, and EPA documents. I make photographs at or near night, on foot, and within a 5-mile radius of Newark. I make photographs of things that can always be found, and are always about to vanish. But not easily.  And not just yet.

  • About

    Emma Wilcox is a photographer concerned with environmental justice, land usage, eminent domain, and the role of individual memory in the creation of local history. Her most recent solo exhibitions were in 2010 at Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY and 2009 with Salvage Rights, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. She is the recipient of a NJ State Arts Council Fellowship for photography, the Camera Club Of NY residency, the Newark Museum Residency and was a core participant in Night School at the New Museum in 2008.  She was featured on Women and Photography and participated in Emerge 7, Aljira, Newark, NJ and AIM 29, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY. She is also co-founder, with Evonne M. Davis, of Gallery Aferro, a Newark, NJ alternative space.  She lives by the river. Solo Exhibitions 2011 Where it Falls, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (upcoming) 2010 Emma Wilcox, Gitterman Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Salvage Rights, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (curated by Kristina Newman-Scott with essay by Eva Diaz) 2007 Forensic Landscapes, Guest artist to the permanent collection, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado) 2003 Covert Street, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Awards and…

  • News

    now represented by Gitterman Gallery + upcoming solo exhibition for 2011 Where it Falls, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (curated by John Caperton) + this site is being rebuilt after being broken for a while. happy about this.

  • Some Press

    soon

  • Contact

    ewilcox (at) aferro (dot) org

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