EMILY GILLCRIST
  • About
  • Art 2020-2024
    • Paintings 2019
    • Step Lightly 2011-2019
    • Difference & Identity 2010-2014
    • Night Series 2010
    • Point + Form 2010
  • Resume
  • CV
  • Vital Thought
  • About
  • Art 2020-2024
    • Paintings 2019
    • Step Lightly 2011-2019
    • Difference & Identity 2010-2014
    • Night Series 2010
    • Point + Form 2010
  • Resume
  • CV
  • Vital Thought
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Riders on the Storm, 16"x20", acrylic and sand on canvas.
 I am an artist and PhD fellow in Cultural Analysis & Theory at Stony Brook University. There I also teach film, philosophy, cultural studies, and writing.

My academic work synthesizes postcolonial environmentalism, existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and technocriticism.

My artwork inspires and is inspired by my research. Primarily a painter, I use abstract expressionistic techniques, spontaneously creating layers of texture and color, at times incorporating mixed media (such as sand, fabric, paper, metal leaf, etc.) I often balance these surfaces with detailed brushwork influenced by romanticism and  natural forms—figures, landscapes, and natural patterns. I am drawn to themes I encounter in my research: the uncanny, memory, worldhood, materiality, and the tension of the nature/culture relation.
  • About
  • Art 2020-2024
    • Paintings 2019
    • Step Lightly 2011-2019
    • Difference & Identity 2010-2014
    • Night Series 2010
    • Point + Form 2010
  • Resume
  • CV
  • Vital Thought