Alumni
Baxter St at CCNY has long been a catalyst for innovative creation within the artistic mediums of photography and video practices. Ranging from exhibitions, residency programs, and partnerships, our core mission is to support and activate a vibrant community deeply engaged in the art of lens-based contemporary practices. Take a look at the wide breadth of alumni that are a part of our wonderful and ever-expanding community.
ARTISTS
Emma Safir
Guest Curatorial Program ()
ARTISTS
Emma Safir
Guest Curatorial Program ()
Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) is an artist who employs material exploration and manipulation of fabric through weaving techniques, smocking, lens-based media, rasterization, upholstery, among other methods. Her work functions as screen simulations, proxies and portals. Safir is interested in hierarchies of labor, especially in their relationship to gender and digitization. Safir holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in Painting & Printmaking.
Glitches & Veils is a solo exhibition of works by Emma Safir, bringing together new and recent work from the artist’s material exploration of digital and feminized labor. Through an interdisciplinary practice based in photography and textiles, Safir creates soft, ambivalent objects that function as screen simulations, proxies, and portals. Convex and both absorbing and emanating light, her panels slow down the texture, colors, and experience of screens to dissect and make clear their expressive dimension and impact on the body.
