Emily Harter is an interdisciplinary artist who makes paintings, drawings, prints, and ceramics. Influenced by convergent backgrounds in painting, printmaking and art history, her work depicts worlds populated by hedonistic shape-shifters and ruled by cartoon logic. Drawing from, and at times directly quoting, a wide array of references, including antique-mall kitsch, Flemish tapestries, the satirical prints of Hogarth and Daumier, and Golden Age animation, she aims to interrogate identity, obligation, and that ol’ horizon of desire.
Harter’s work has been shown throughout the United States, including exhibitions at Ochi Gallery and Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA, Private Practice in Austin, TX, and Bread and Salt in San Diego, CA, and is in private collections nationally and internationally. She has published etchings with Hoofprint Studios in Chicago, IL and Bohemian Press at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. She was the recipient of the 2020 MAPC Travel Grant and has been a resident artist at Lighthouse Works in Fisher’s Island, NY, Arts, Letters, and Numbers in Averill Park, NY, and After 1920 in San Diego, CA. She is a co-founder of Pigeon Hole Press in Chicago, IL, which produces and publishes fine art intaglio prints.
