Working on “Suspension, Stage 1” one of two in-process installations I have up at PLACE.

The Settlement: Occupation

December 18, 2010 from 6pm - 10pm

People's, Place, Store, and Trade 

Pioneer Place 700 SW 5th Ave

Portland, OR

Place gallery

December 18, 2010 from 6pm - 10pm, The Settlement ignites the 3rd floor of Pioneer Place Mall with “Occupation” comprised of four artist-run gallery spaces including: People, Place, Store, and Trade.

People's - spearheaded by Chris Haberman and Jason Brown. People's offers original, small-scale works by local artists. Two dimensional and small scale sculpture will be featured by People. All work is cash and carry and priced mod...estly.

Place - Continuing to build on its mission of presenting process-oriented installation work, Place offers Terror and Ego. An exhibition featuring the work of Joshua Berger, TJ Norris, Dustin Zemel, Emily Nachison, Rhoda London, and Vanessa Calvert. Place is co-curated and directed by Palma Corral, Gabe Flores, and Gary Wiseman.

Store - The product of The Settlement’s collaboration with PNCA continues to develop and feature installation works by the BFA students of Victor Maldonado's Art , Ethics, and Transgression class.

Trade - The most fluid of the galleries focuses on local institutions that fill a creative and experimental niche. Trade’s initial activation will be by the curatorial collaboration of Nim Wunnan of Research Club, Tori Abernathy of Recess Gallery, Wynde Dyer of Golden Rule, Elizabeth Lamb gallery director of The White Box, and Max Ogden creating ontologies for communication.

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Nice write up on reve de la mode:
"For those of you who are unfamiliar with Emily Nachison's mesmerizing work, her current work explores space, natural growth and the human perception of nature. Her fantastic work is constructed through a series of manmade materials, given a completely new identity as they transform into a lively spectacle. While at first glance her conceptual designs may appear to resemble a spiderweb or an untangled ball of yarn, one cannot help but look twice, and really think what is this mess? Perhaps the thing I am fond of the most about this series entails the fact that work like so, can be interpreted anyway the viewer pleases, thus, highlighting the fact that art is not right nor wrong, rather it's a bit ambiguous and strange, which is half the reason we are all drawn to it in the first place. "
Thanks guys!

Great write up on the awesome Los Angeles based blog Kitsune Noir:

"There is something slightly unnerving about the installations by artist Emily Nachison. Perhaps this mood stems from the imposingly tangled and unkempt webs that she suspends from gallery ceilings. Or maybe it is that her strange and otherworldly structures appear to simultaneously suggest emptiness and congestion. A repository for Nachison’s diverse mixture of inspirations, which include New Age culture, the Victorian era, storybook illustrations and nature, her work aims to explore “space, natural growth and the human perception of nature.” In so doing, she aims to “create naturalistic environments out of man-made materials by mimicking plant growth patterns and geological accumulation. This juxtaposition of natural versus artificial is an investigation into the cultural creation of landscape.”

This play on recreating a version of nature through the use of man-made materials is undoubtedly at the crux of the tension present in Nachison’s installations. Her work is both fascinating and beautiful to view in photographs, so I can only imagine what it would be like to walk through her amazing pieces. It is quite apt that she has appropriated a quotation from writer C.S. Lewis to open her artist’s statement, as I feel that seeing and experiencing her work would be akin to opening the wardrobe door and wandering into Narnia."


Visit: Kitsune Noir

The Detroit Museum of New Art presents The Facebook Show

Featuring the profile pictures of more than 600 art-worldists in curator Jef Bourgeau's friend list, The Facebook Show examines what Bourgeau calls the "beneficial catastrophe of Facebook." For better or worse, it has made the world a smaller place.

Artists include; Achille Bonito Oliva, Alan Feltus Cindy Sherman, Dave Roberts, David Salle, Ed Ruscha, Emily Nachison, Evan Abramson, Ferdinando Cotugno, Nick Hottmann, Sharon Louden, Victor Romao, Liz Cohen, Jeff Koons, Jef Bourgeau, Eva Winkeler, Ashley Bickerton, William Wegman and Sandro Chia.  

Show runs October 2 - 30, 2010
For more information visit:
www.detroitmona.com
Read: Metro Times article by Travis R. Wright 9/29/10

Crystal Crag: a window installation for the Emerson Space Case
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 6, 2010  7 - 10 pm

The Emerson Space Case
5304 NE 30th Ave, Portland, Oregon
The Emerson Space Case is a window gallery that displays installation art by local artists. The space is located at NE 30th and Emerson, one block south of Killingsworth, in the Alberta Arts District. 

Installation for the Museum of New Art Detroit, Pontiac, MI.

Photography by PD Rearick

Shadow Drawings Series
gouache, ink and pencil on paper 

These drawings were made by tracing the shadows cast by my hanging net sculptures.

Photography by PD Rearick

 Nice blurb on my piece White Room on Poppy Gall Blog

"I just popped onto the Design Sponge Blog and discovered Emily Ann Nachison's fiber art installation. It reminds me of this mornings fresh snow, or a stage set for a winter fairy tale. Emily used netting, camouflage netting, latex paint, spray paint, crystals, zip ties, and string to create this heavenly installation.  I was planning to take a day off from blogging today but I couldn’t resist sharing these images with you."

Corina Reynolds wrote a nice write-up on my art work and the work of Thomas Demand, discussing the idea of mimicry and the grotto.

"...Nachison uses unnatural materials to mimic the natural word. The fantastical environments she creates evoke questions about disillusionment and consumption. One of her most recent pieces, shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, was similar in theme to one of Demand's pieces—it was a grotto. Made from modern materials often used in the construction and housing industry, Nachison's White Grotto became a welcome oasis in the cacophonous Out of the Woods show that brimmed with video and performance art."

Read the rest of the article here: http://caafiberforum.blogspot.com/

Upcoming show at the Museum of New Art 
Emily Nachison: Sculpture and Drawings

Opening Reception: June 19, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Gallery hours: Thursday + Saturday 1:00 - 5:00 pm or by appointment

Museum of New Art Detroit

7 North Saginaw Street,

Pontiac, Michigan 48342

248.210.7560 
www.detroitmona.com

James Griffioen took these beautiful photos of my most recent piece White Grotto while it was up in the Cranbrook Degree show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, Michigan.

To view more of his photography check check out his blog www.sweetjuniperphoto.com

Here are a few images of my piece White Grotto being installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit for the Out of the Woods: Cranbrook Degree Show Exhibition

2010 Cranbrook Academy of Art Degree Exhibition
Opening Reception Saturday, April 17, 2010
Member and Guest preview: 6pm-8pm
Public opening: Begins at 8pm

Performances by Xiu Xiu and Glass Rock
$10 admission for all guests after 8pm

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
4454 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201
www.mocadetroit.org

Here are some photos of my White Mass installation at the
Winter 2010 Emerging Artist Show Opening Reception.
all photos by Serge Cashman via the Rabbitholeprojects Blog
For more photos and show information visit Rabbitholeprojects

RABBITHOLESTUDIO invites you to attend the opening reception of the Winter 2010 Emerging Artist Show this Thursday, Feb 4th. We are tremendously excited to present these 11 diverse artists on the rise, working in a range of media and presented as part of First Thursdays, Dumbo's monthly gallery walk. Explored are relationships with time and kin, layered earth, fragments of the Natural World, personification, situations taken out of context.

Exhibition continues through Feb 20
Gallery hours: TUE-SAT 12 - 5 pm and by appointment. 
For more information visit: www.rabbitholestudio.com

Design Sponge, the art and design blog, did a short write up on my work today:

"speaking of inspiring- i’d like to spend a few hours in this incredible white room created by artist emily ann nachison. emily used netting, camouflage netting, latex paint, spray paint, crystals, zip ties, and string to create this seriously heavenly installation. wouldn’t it be fun if more people had artists create installations like this in their homes? if i had a spare room i’d love to create a space like this where i could go and chill out and imagine i’m living in a cloud…" 

You can check the rest of it out here at www.designspongeonline.com

New Work

White Room Installation
Netting, camouflage netting, latex paint, spray paint, crystals, zip ties, string, 2009

I am currently updating my website with new work. But for now you can see my latest work at enachison.blogspot.com

Thank you and Happy New Year!