Emily Joyce was invited by Maura Biava to participate in the exhibition at Galerie Caroline O'Breen in the summer 2022. Maura Biava invited several artists to elaborate with her on the theme of patterns, exploring and depicting nature, and its relation to mathematics and symmetry. Other participating artists are Anne Geene, Elsa Leydier, and Saskia Van Drimmelen. Nature * Patterns revolves around the ideas of information and hidden geometries behind what we see in nature at first glance.
Emily Joyce is a California-based artist whose paintings investigate nature, the urban world, and art history through pattern-based rhythmic abstraction. She uses interlocking geometric compositions to communicate on a level that is realistic, logical, fantastic, and humorous at the same time. “(It is) the stuff of our daily existence that I’m talking about in my paintings: the grid of the city, the hidden system inside one’s body, the complex symmetry of a passionflower, or the geometric harmony of a Piero della Francesca compositions. We, contemporary humans, endure the stresses and benefits of the visible and invisible networks and persist in finding levity in our existence. There is an inherent beauty in these webs that underlie everything. And it’s the topsy-turvy human conditions of alienation, communion, individuality, and connectivity that makes investigations into the hidden geometries of our world so important.” — Emily Joyce.