Continuum

Emily Walley’s work is an exploration of place and memory. It considers how we collect, curate, conceptualize, and communicate a given moment over time. These pieces fall on a continuum between representation and abstraction, where nature collides with print photographs, digital remnants, paper, and tape, materializing on canvas as dreamlike and detached amid fields of color.

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Created between 2024 and 2026, the paintings and interactive sculpture represented in this exhibition were her search for solace in a time of extremes; a way to embrace play, humor, and optimism to process the incomprehensible.

 

Throughout the show, you’ll discover recurring motifs: pinecones; drought-tolerant perennials; rocks; shells; driftwood; objects from nature that have weathered storms through decades, over centuries. Walley invites you to consider the sculptural piece Retreat, as your buffer, a means to find some comfort amid the instability.