Emily Furr | Delirious New York

May 9 – June 7, 2025

Sargent's Daughters is pleased to present Emily Furr's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery: Delirious New York.  Across paintings, drawings, and collages, this new body of work places Furr's precise, cosmic imagery in dialogue with the iconic built environment of New York. Rem Koolhaas' seminal work of the same title is a sprawling analysis of the architecture and planning of Manhattan and a manifesto on 20th century urbanism. Furr's new work critically engages with the history and mythos of the city she calls home, reinterpreting its signifiers in through surreal and playful compositions.

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.