Emma Webster is a British-American painter. She refabricates nature from still life models and scenographic studies using VR technology.Fontaine, Pearl. "Emma Webster Paints Ethereal Landscapes from a Virtual Reality". Whitewall. ART, 28 December 2021.Alfred, Brian. "Episode 291 / Emma Webster". Sound & Vision (podcast), 11 November 2021.2019 Abrams, Loney. "Highlights from UNTITLED, Art Miami Beach 2019". Artspace, 3 December 2019.
Career Webster's exhibitions have been reviewed in publications including The New York Times W Magazine ARTnews The New Yorker,2021 Fateman, Johanna. "Emma Webster". The New Yorker, 27 September 2021.From review: "It's an imaginative approach to the centuries-old genre of landscape, one that the artist shares with other Fauvist-inspired contemporary painters, including Shara Hughes and Matthew Wong. But the strange, engulfing sense of depth in Webster's luscious canvases also hints at the 3-D seduction of virtual-reality adventures..." Los Angeles Times,Pagel, David. "Review: Emma Webster's Landscapes Take You into a Sublime, Magical World". Los Angeles Times, 10 March 2019, p. F2.From review: "Emma Webster's paintings are grand affairs: sweeping landscapes filled with forests and mountains and rivers and lakes, some bathed in golden light and others shrouded in shadows so deep you shudder." Artforum International,Malone, Tyler. "Critic's Pick Los Angeles: Emma Webster at Diane Rosenstein". Artforum International, 4 March 2019.From review: "Yet the postlapsarian world of Webster's pastoral dreamscapes somehow retains an Edenic sublimity through its foregrounded artificiality—these locales, while uncannily familiar, are like no place on earth, each so perfect a model of a model of some heavenly dwellings." and Artsy;From review: "Webster applies colorful brush strokes to compose a rich jungle landscape... Webster's paintings stitch together abstract gestures into a legible portrait." her paintings have appeared in Harper's Magazine,Harper's Magazine,, October 2021, p. 13. New American Paintings,New American Paintings Pacific Issue 139 (2019). Print. New American Paintings Pacific Issue 127 (2016). Print. and Jana Prikryl's Midwood (cover)., via author's Instagram In 2022, she was the recipient of the Jericho Fellowship, Venice Italy.
Notable collections Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Fla.
Works about Emma Webster Emma Webster: Green Iscariot, 2021, Alexander Berggruen, Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.27 in., Publisher: Alexander Berggruen, Year: 2021, Pages: 60 Lonescape: Green, Painting and Mourning Reality, 2021, Emma Webster, Dimensions: 7 x 4 1/4 in. (17.8 x 10.8 cm.), Publisher: Emma Webster, Year: 2021, page: 240
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