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DESCRIPTION
Watercolor on paper
4 x 6 in
2025
BIO
Jamie Emerick is a San Francisco–based painter whose visceral, expressive work centers on the human figure, especially the portrait, as a site of emotional and psychological exploration. In an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence and disembodied interaction, Emerick views her work as a form of embodied resistance—an investment in what cannot be optimized: the messy, ambiguous experience of being human. Through layering, obscuring, and reworking, she resists resolution, allowing haunted, spectral figures to emerge and dissolve within transparent washes and bold strokes, evoking moments that are unstable, unconscious, and in flux. Emerick’s paintings evoke the porous boundaries of the self: skin, psyche, and soul. Her figures are transformed—abstracted, obscured, and reconfigured into vessels for something deeper.
DESCRIPTION
Watercolor on paper
4 x 6 in
2025
BIO
Jamie Emerick is a San Francisco–based painter whose visceral, expressive work centers on the human figure, especially the portrait, as a site of emotional and psychological exploration. In an age increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence and disembodied interaction, Emerick views her work as a form of embodied resistance—an investment in what cannot be optimized: the messy, ambiguous experience of being human. Through layering, obscuring, and reworking, she resists resolution, allowing haunted, spectral figures to emerge and dissolve within transparent washes and bold strokes, evoking moments that are unstable, unconscious, and in flux. Emerick’s paintings evoke the porous boundaries of the self: skin, psyche, and soul. Her figures are transformed—abstracted, obscured, and reconfigured into vessels for something deeper.