EMILY SOMOSKEY

Emily’s mixed media paintings use a balance between representation and abstraction to explore the ways that we simultaneously experience physical and mental space. Using the disparate mediums of painting and collage, she creates a complex and nuanced language that weaves together moments of clarity and ambiguity. Through Emily's compositions, she references the shifting and overlapping nature of our experiences with sensate and psychological realms.

Emily Somoskey is a two-dimensional mixed media artist and painter from Northeast Ohio who is currently based in Walla Walla, Washington. Her work explores the complexity and ever-changing nature of perception through the layered use of oil paint and collaged photographic imagery. Emily’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, most recently at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, and The Painting Center in New York, New York. She pursued a BA in Art Education and Painting at The University of Akron in Akron Ohio, and her MFA at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. Emily is currently teaching Painting and Drawing as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitman College.