Emma Tapley
ABOUT ME
Education
1991 BFA School of Visual Arts
1986 Pratt Institute
Solo Shows
2024 After Life/Amongst the Trees Garvey/Simon at DFN Project Space NYC
2018 Sonoma Academy
2017 Icelandic Sketches TheoGanz Studio Beacon, NY
2016 Herhusid, Sigjlufjordur, Iceland
2012 Being Time: Inversions Fischbach Gallery NY, NY
2010 Recent Paintings Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC
2007 Inversions, REflections & the Space In Beween, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2006 The Inner Landscape of the Workin Process of Emma Tapley Village Zendo, NY, NY
2004 Elements Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2001 Streams, Skys, Mountains & Trees Fischbach Gallery NY NY
2001 Mountains & Rivers Sykes Gallery Millersville University, Millersville PA
2000 Nature Vivant, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC
1999 Archive of Light, Fischbach Gallery, NY NY
Selected Group Shows
2024 By the Sea Carol Corey Fine Art Kent,CT
2019 Blue in Green curated by Alyssa E. Fanning Platform Project Space Bklyn, NY
2019 Women of the Century Century Association, NY, NY
2019 Sense of Place curated by Michael Holden 1 Gap Gallery, Bklyn, NY
2019 Spring Break, NY, NY represented by Park Place Gallery
2019 Intimate Immesity & Other Daydreams curated by Monica Sosnowki AC Institute, NY<NY
2019 Representing Artisan's Loft 143 Reade Street, NY, NY
2018 Sense of Place Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Water Century Association, New York, NY
2018 Land & Sea & Sky M&M Fine Arts South Hampton, NY
2018 Works on Paper Pier 36 Garvey Simon Gallery, NY, NY
2018 Natural Proclivities Co-curated by Kim Power & Melanie Vote Shirley Fireman Art Centre, NY, NY
2017 Tonal Shift curated by Katherine Daniels and Carol Salmanson Station Independent, NY, NY
2015 Prime Matter Teckningmuseet (The Museum of Drawings) Laholm Sweden
2014 Some Like it Hot Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2014 Prime Matter Organized by Zoe Pettijohn Schade and Christopher Schade Senaspace Gallery NY, NY
2013 Season Preview Fischbach Gallery, NY NY
2013 Gone Fisching, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2013 Just in Time, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2012 Seaon Preview, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2012 Country Living, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2012 The Annual: 2012 national Academy Museum and School, NY, NY
2011 Trees Ucross Foundation Wymoming
2010 The Art Show, Urban Legends, Country Myths Fischbach Gallery The Armory NY
2010 We are the World Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Everyone Loves Good News, Fischbach Gallery, NY NY
2008 Acqueous, Cathedral Gallery, Washington DC
2007 Red Dot Art Fair, Fischbach Gallery, Miami Florida
2007 Real Time Focus, Redefining Landscape curated by Emma Tapley and Paul Caranicas Bernaducci Meisel Gallery NY,NY
2007 Summer Break, Fischbach Gallery NY, NY
2006 Take Home a Nude, Phillips De Pury & Company, NY, NY
2006 Lost Art, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2005 Take Home a Nude, Phillips De Pury & Company NY, NY
2005 Art Show Fischbach Gallery Armory NY, NY
2004 Affordable Art Show, Fischbach Gallery Piers, NY NY
2003 Art Show, Fischbach Gallery, Armory, NY, NY
2003 Light as Air, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2003 Affordable Art Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2002 Art Show, Armory, NY, NY
2002 Contemporary American Landscape, MA Doran Gallery Tulsa Oklahoma
2002 H2O Paintings of Water, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2001 Representing Representation V The Arnot Musuem, Elmira, NY
2000 Thought as Place, Catholic University curated by Kurt Godwin
2000 Contemporary Realism III, MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2000 Y2$ Artwork for the Millennium, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
1998 East Meets West, Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Bibliography
2024 Two Coats of Paint Contemporary Landscape: Reinvigorated and reinvented Patrick Neal https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2024/05/contemporary-landscape-reinvigorated-and-reinvented.html
2019 Two Coats of Paint A Pocket guide to Painting at the SPRING/BREAK Art show
2019 Art Pulse Magazine Natural Proclivities by Peter Drake https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/natural-proclivities-creating-empathy-toward-the-environment/
2018 Down to Earth-on a new Level The Blue Review by Mike Gusev
2013 New Yorker Listings
2013 A Life of Style Jason Jobson
2013 Washington Post, Mark Jenkins
2011 Parabola Volume 36, No 4, Winter
2007 The New York Sun July 6, 2007 by John Goodrich
2007 Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center
2007American Arts Quarterly, Volume 24, Number 3
2006 this Brevity, Gianmarc Manzione, Parsifal Press Candada
2006 Modern Review, Winter 2005, volume I, cover Illus, Parsifal Press
2004 Gotham Reveiw
2001 Representing Representaion, Arnot Museum Catalogue
2001 The New Scratch Board, Charles Ewing, Watson-Gutpill Publications
2001 Barry Schwabsky, Review, Art Forum, Feb 2001 https://www.artforum.com/events/emma-tapley-175996/
2001 The Danger in Everything, Poems by Jeff Walt
2001 The Studio Center, Liaonong Publishing House
2001 Contemporary Art Journal Volume I Tomoyuki Ono
Curatorial Experience
2013 Photography is Burning: The ever changing landscape of Photography, Village Zendo, NY
2010 The Uncommon Thread, Curated by Emma Tapley and Paul Caranicas Front Room, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Real Time Focus: Redefining the Painted Landscape, Curated by Emma Tapley and Paul Caranicas Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, NY, NY
Film
2007 Grin Rain, directed by Noah Buschel
2009 The Missing Person, directed by Noah Buschel
Awards and Grants
2002 E.D. Foundation Grant, NY, NY
1998 2nd Prize, Fine Art National Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
1997 Vermont Studio Center Arts Grant
Residencies
2019 The Art Shed, Sointula, BC
2016 Herhusid,Siglufjordur Iceland
2009 Ucross Foundation Wyoming
2009 Jentel Foundation, Wyoming
1998 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony Woodstock
1997 Vermont Studio Center
In the Collection of
The American Express Company, New York Solo Exhibitons
Doug Bowen NY, NY
Brown Forman, Louisville Kentucky
Bettina Buschell, NY, NY
Ilene Cohen, Princeton, NJ
Vick Corp, NY, NY
Larry Di Carlo Miami Beach, florida
Mary Anne Doran Gallery, Oklahoma
James Fields, Washington DC
Fox/Paine Foster City, CA
John and Xena Glaietti NY, NY
Tom and Margo Happer NY, NY
David and Gretchen Kane NY, NY
Mr & Mrs. Ricardo Guajardo NY, NY
Karen Harvey NY, NY
Robert J. Hrebek
Kerri & Tyler Reid BC Canada
Erin Reid BC Canada
Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon, NY
Dr & Mrs. Innes, NY, NY
Keith and Rose Anne Jarret, NJ
Rebecca Karuse, NY, NY
Carol Lin, Society of Nanlaoshu, NY, NY
Joanna Lewis, Penn
Harriet Leonard, NY, NY
Mr & Mrs. Wes Mc Cain, NY, NY
Duncan Mc Failand
Nina Mankin, NY, NY
Larry Grenadier and Rebecca Martin, NY, NY
Cyndy and Jim Metzger, NY, NY
Scott Moger, NY, NY
Ben Moss, NY, NY
Mr & Mrs. Wilson Nolen
Parker Posey NY, NY
Leslie Puth Rhode Island
G. Remak Ramsay, NY, NY
Bradford Reed, Bklyn
Mr & Mrs Juson P. Reis, NY, NY
Stephanie Roberts Mass
Barry Rosenberg, NY, NY
Barry Schwabsky NY, NY
David and Eleni Smolen, NY, NY
Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
Paul P. Tanico Ny, NY
Howard Tullman
Carolyn and Malcolm Wiener, Greenwich, Conn