Emily Furr
Battle Salute, 2022, Oil and acrylic on linen, wood frame, 60x 48in.
Apollo 69, 2022, Oil and acrylic on linen, wood frame, 37x 31in.
Emily Furr (b. 1978, St. Louis, MO) is a New York based visual artist. Furr draws upon Precisionism, Surrealism, and Pop Art to make work that feels both timeless and profoundly timely. Her work examines human attempts to control the uncontrollable, producing disorienting images which insert intimately terrestrial objects into galactic star-scapes. Engaging themes of industrialism, transformation, and the cosmic void, Furr’s work speaks to the fragility of human exploits in comparison with the vastness of the universe.
Furr received her MFA from Hunter College, NY in 2018. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Orange County Museum of Art (Costa Mesa, CA) and the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO). She has recently exhibited at 12.26 Gallery (Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA), Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA), Rebecca Camacho (San Francisco, CA), Office Baroque (Antwerp, Belgium), O’Flaherty’s (New York, NY), Galerie Hussenot (New York, NY), amongst others; as well as being featured on the cover of New American Paintings’ 25th Anniversary Edition. She was an artist in residence at the Watermill Center (Watermill, NY) in 2019. In 2021, a solo exhibition of Furr’s work was presented at the SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA, curated by Ariella Wolens, assistant curator of SCAD exhibitions. Furr presented a solo booth of new works with Sargent’s Daughters at the Armory Show in 2022.
Her work has been reviewed in Artnet, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, The New York Times, Time Out New York, amongst others. Furr is represented by Sargent’s Daughters. Her recent solo exhibition at Sargent’s Daughters Los Angeles, “Bombshell,” marked her debut Los Angeles presentation and her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Exhibitions
The Armory Show 2022
NADA Miami 2020
Marfa Invitational 2019
NADA Miami 2018
News
Yale Review | Volume 112, Number 1, Spring 2024
Between the Lines: An RxART Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists – Volume 9 | RxART
Sublime Minutiae (online), Exhibition A | December 2, 2023
Missile Dance (2023) Acquired by the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO | September 25, 2023
Limited Edition Lunar Cut (2023) | Exhibition A
The Intelligencer | July 13, 2023
White Columns Benefit Auction | Bidding closes June 1, 2023
Extra Strength, 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX | April 19 – June 3, 2023
EXPO Chicago, Booth 275, Rebecca Camacho, Chicago, IL | April 13 – 16, 2023
Basic Fit, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium | February 10 – April 8, 2023
Galerie Magazine | November 30, 2022
Art for Change x Galerie Magazine limited edition prints of Moon Chute
Mechanical Poems, 12.26 West, Los Angeles, CA | September 25 – October 29, 2022
The New York Times | September 1, 2022
O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY | July 9 – August 10, 2022
Platform Anniversary Capsule | July 2022
Office Baroque | April 4 - June 30, 2022
BOOOOOOOM! | December 11, 2021
Dallas Art Fair, 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX | November 11 – 14, 2021
TWO X TWO Auction for AIDS and Art, Dallas, TX | October 23, 2021
Omni Mind, Rebecca Camacho, San Fransisco, CA | September 23 – October 29, 2021
Woman in Paris, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France | June 18 – July 24
Dynamite Bridge, 12.26 West, Los Angeles, CA | May 15 – June 13, 2021
Medium | May 5, 2021
Burnaway | March 31, 2021
Connect Savannah | March 5, 2021
Emily Furr: Star Tap, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA | February 9 – May 9, 2021
Artnet | January 5, 2021
ARTFORUM | August 24, 2018
Hyperallergic | August 18, 2018
Artnet | August 14, 2018
Time Out New York | August 6, 2018
Bedford and Bowery | July 30, 2018
Publications