(b 1997United States. Lives and works in Massillon)
Emily Bartolone's work is grounded in shape and color, yet influenced by ideas of the mundane, the awkward, and the jovial that surround everyday life. Bartolone celebrates the playful and human qualities of painting through her use of amorphous shapes animated within the picture plane. She creates moments of tension within her work in the form of an abrupt mark, a disparate color, or a shift in scale.
She hopes to offer the viewer a break from the distractions of daily life. Her formal usage of shapes and color serve to challenge the history of masculinity within geometric, abstract painting by inserting soft, rounded forms into it.
