![]() Her work has been exhibited across Canada and can be found in private and corporate collections throughout North America.THE HAGGADAH I’M HOLDING is an unpublished version created by a friend of a friend, home-printed and stapled and dotted with purple stains. She does not wish to present the viewer with a realistic interpretation of the flower but rather convey the beauty and the impressions which they leave behind in our memories.Emily Filler currently works out of Toronto, Canada. This chance experimentation often reveals a hint of colour or pattern that allows her to continue - by going backwards she sees something that could never have been achieved simply moving forward. In Filler's work one finds vibrant and spirited canvases juxtaposed with moody and layered pieces, and ghostly monochrome electrified by colourful accents. Filler also relies heavily on the act of removal - rubbing out areas of a painting that she spent hours building up. ![]() Many areas are kept wild and gestural which compliment the more precious areas. Yet the finished works do not appear as a collage - rather, she has gathered these fragments and made them into a complete image, something whole.The artist's hand is clearly visible in the work, experimenting with a diverse assemblage of colours, patterns, textures, and mark making. Filler is a collector of images - patterns from fabrics, images from books, magazines, her environment, and photographs she takes incessantly. There is a sense of the familiar but also the feeling that you are falling into a dream - flowers act as a departure point to a world that dissolves into abstraction.Like a collage, her work is pieced together from things she has seen, things that linger in her mind. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and can be found in private and corporate collections throughout North America.Įmily Filler's paintings walk the line between the real and the imaginary. She does not wish to present the viewer with a realistic interpretation of the flower but rather convey the beauty and the impressions which they leave behind in our memories.Įmily Filler currently works out of Toronto, Canada. ![]() In Filler's work one finds vibrant and spirited canvases juxtaposed with moody and layered pieces, and ghostly monochrome electrified by colourful accents. This chance experimentation often reveals a hint of colour or pattern that allows her to continue - by going backwards she sees something that could never have been achieved simply moving forward. The artist's hand is clearly visible in the work, experimenting with a diverse assemblage of colours, patterns, textures, and mark making. Yet the finished works do not appear as a collage - rather, she has gathered these fragments and made them into a complete image, something whole. ![]() Like a collage, her work is pieced together from things she has seen, things that linger in her mind. There is a sense of the familiar but also the feeling that you are falling into a dream - flowers act as a departure point to a world that dissolves into abstraction. Emily Filler's paintings walk the line between the real and the imaginary.
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