Emily Loughlin is a sculptor and designer living in Brooklyn, NY. Working with ceramics and textile, her work explores the intersection of biology and geology by flipping their time scales: investigating 10,000+ year organisms and vibrant, “living” rocks.
With clay as her primary medium, she uses firing temperature to manipulate the work’s longevity, making topographies and landscapes “temporary” through raw clay and bisque firing, and organic forms “permanent” through high-fire vitrification. Her focus on biological organisms that are both colonies and colonizers of their respective environments – such aspen clones, lichens, and fungi - aims to visualize the generative forces present in nature, and to contextualize humanity’s near-complete colonization of our own environment.
Emily is represented by Amos Eno Gallery and Armature Projects, and she is currently an Artist-in-Residence with Friends of Pando in Richfield, Utah, where she is creating a body of work in dialogue with the world’s largest tree. Her March 2024 solo exhibition at Keepsake Gallery is the culmination of a 2024 Artshack Residency, and involves growing mushrooms across sculptural ceramic topographies.
For inquiries, contact: emilylouise.lou@gmail.com
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Biomineral Topographies, Keepsake Gallery, Brooklyn NY.
2023 Sculptural Ecologies, Pearl Street Caviar: PSCxRHOS, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2023 Halos; John C. Hutcheson Gallery at Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
More is Never Enough (Online); Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
Beyond Mud: Ceramics in 2023, BWAC Gallery, NY
Inimitable (Online); Project Gallery V, New York, NY
To Darken, Lightly; LIC-A, Long Island City, NY
People and the Planet; Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
Convergence, Mudflat Studio, Somerville, MA
Magic Hour, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (through January 2024)
2022 On; Head Hi at the Ace Hotel, New York, NY
Sculpture National, Clay Center of New Orleans, LA
2021 Its a Process; Clayworks, Brooklyn, NY
Red Hook Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Residencies & Fellowships
2024 Winter Artshack/Keepsake Gallery Artist in Residence, Brooklyn, NY
2023-2024 Artist in Residence, Friends of Pando, Richfield, UT
Teaching
“Rooted Systems: Drawing from Life” Workshop at Artshack, Brooklyn, NY. May 2, 2024
“A Place for Mushrooms to Grow” Community Day Workshop at Artshack, Brooklyn, NY. April 20, 2024
“Sustainable Art Roundtable” Artist Talk at Artyard, Frenchtown NJ. April 14, 2024
Press