"Safe," an exhibition by Stanford student artist, Emma Webster, will be on view in the Stanford Coffee House from November 17th, 2010 through January 4th, 2011. The reception will be Nov. 18th, 8:00pm--meet the artist!
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
Safe is a combination of works from my spring and winter quarters in Paris as well as this summer in San Diego. This series is about the eventual distancing between people--the slow separation where the ones we love most become unknowable. In the same sense, Safe also addresses how we revel in recoiling from others; how self-imposed incubation makes us more ourselves. The figures, cocooned and isolated, reflect how we hold ourselves where we want to be: somewhere safe. Despite their abstractions, the ambiguous forms of Safe portray a pervasively human narrative. Safe’s subjects, like us, grope for a sense of closeness that perhaps we once had but have since lost.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Emma Webster is a senior majoring in Studio Art at Stanford University. She has also studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, l’École d’Art Plastique in Paris and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Emma is a two-time recipient of Stanford Student Art Grants and was recently awarded the Angel Grant for an upcoming series. For more information please visit the artist’s website at:
www.emmabgwebster.com
