Emily Noelle Lambert
Emily Noelle Lambert
Workspace Program Resident 2014
My work is about the state of flux and the conversation between sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking. Painting piggybacks on top of sculpture, while simultaneously guiding the prints. My interest lies in the language of the actions between color, shape, texture, and how the constructed conversation speaks. I want the work to have a beginner’s space of play, a space that allows me to move the work forward with curiosity.
The Dieu Donné Workspace Program provided a caldron for seeing my process in a microcosm. Each session was like an individual dance between myself and the material. I created molds out of scraps of wood and tried to mash the paper pulp into the spaces, draped bits of paper around fishing ropes, scraps of lace, and tulle. I was left looking at a multi-dimensional piece of paper that seemed to closely resemble a birthday cake iced by chaos.
Returning to Dieu Donné once the paper had been dried and pressed, and seeing how each piece transformed was always thrilling. The paper itself, a colorful hodgepodge, was now a stiffer version of the birthday cake. I determined more order was needed and I gave myself the structure of a grid confined within a two-dimensional plane to hang the work upon. Towards the end, we rehydrated some of the dimensional pieces and pressed them into the flat works, which transformed the surface.
I loved being in the space at Dieu Donné working with the vibrant pulps, tactile and slippery. As a beginner with this transformative process I had the chance to learn something new and filter in my own language through this form.
This was a process of swimming in the dynamic relationship between paper, painting and sculpture. I am grateful to the entire staff of Dieu Donné, particularly Lisa Switaliski who was my ring-leader, helping me tame my lions, and relight the flaming hoop for them to jump through. — Emily Noelle Lambert, 2014
In the Studio
About the Artist
Emily Noelle Lambert received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College and her BA in Visual Art from Antioch College. Lambert has shown nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions in New York City at Denny Dimin Gallery, Lu Magnus Gallery and Priska Juschka Fine Art, Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, and IMART in South Korea. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibition including at Asya Geisburg Gallery, NYC, Bravin Lee Gallery, NYC, Transmitter Gallery Brooklyn, the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota Florida, The University of Michigan in Kalamazoo, The Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA, Weekend Space in LA, and RH+Gallery in Istanbul. She has been awarded fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Yaddo Foundation, Fountainhead Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Dieu Donne, The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Artist Residency, The Fountainhead Residency, and the Lower East Side Printshop. Lambert’s work has been reviewed in The International New York Times, The Observer, The Brooklyn Rail, Modern Painters, The Washington Post, Art in America, and artforum.com. She lives and works between Harrisville, New Hampshire and New York City. She is currently' a part-time assistant professor at The New School, Parsons School of Design. (Source: Artist’s website)
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