Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Jan 03 - Feb 02, 2019
Mason has her second exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York.
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New York, 1932 - 2019
Emily Mason
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Emily Mason has spent more than six decades exploring her distinctive vein of lyrical, luminous abstraction. Her paintings executed in oil are distinguished by a sense of intriguing intimacy combined with uncompromising, though gentle, intensity. They evince a sense of structure within open, luminous space and juxtapose robust color harmonies with vivid contrasts that create an engaging optical vibration. Robert Berlind said of her in Art in America, “Mason works within the improvisational model of Abstract Expressionism, though notably without angst or bravado.”
Born and raised in New York City, Emily Mason graduated from New York City’s High School of Music and Art. She studied at Bennington College for two years before attending and graduating from the Cooper Union. She spent 1956-58 in Italy on a Fulbright grant for painting,...
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Emily Mason has spent more than six decades exploring her distinctive vein of lyrical, luminous abstraction. Her paintings executed in oil are distinguished by a sense of intriguing intimacy combined with uncompromising, though gentle, intensity. They evince a sense of structure within open, luminous space and juxtapose robust color harmonies with vivid contrasts that create an engaging optical vibration. Robert Berlind said of her in Art in America, “Mason works within the improvisational model of Abstract Expressionism, though notably without angst or bravado.”
Born and raised in New York City, Emily Mason graduated from New York City’s High School of Music and Art. She studied at Bennington College for two years before attending and graduating from the Cooper Union. She spent 1956-58 in Italy on a Fulbright grant for painting, where she studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Venice.
During Mason’s two-year stay in Italy she married the painter Wolf Kahn, whom she had met earlier in New York. Mason and Kahn’s daughter, Cecily Kahn, is also an abstract painter, as was Emily Mason’s mother, Alice Trumbull Mason, a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group in New York.
Mason has exhibited steadily since she emerged on the Tenth Street gallery scene with multiple exhibitions at the Area Gallery in New York City in the 1960s. In 1979 she was awarded the Ranger Fund Purchase Prize by the National Academy. She taught painting at Hunter College for more than thirty years. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections.
Emily Mason: The Fifth Element, a comprehensive treatment of her work by Art in America associate managing editor David Ebony, was published in 2006 by George Braziller publishers. A second monograph, Emily Mason: The Light in Spring, was published in 2015 by University Press of New England.
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The Wind Doth Blow
2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches (61 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Emily Mason 2018 (recto)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Snow Dust
2018
Oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 28 inches (61.3 x 71.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Emily Mason 2018 (recto)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Look Back
2018
Oil on canvas
22 x 36 inches (55.9 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Emily Mason 2018 (recto)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Summer’s Harvest
2018
Oil on canvas
70 x 52 inches (177.8 x 132.1 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Inner Most
2018
Oil on canvas
54 x 52 inches (137.2 x 132.1 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Thin Ice
2018
Oil on canvas
56 x 52 inches (142.2 x 132.1 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Arch
2018
Oil on canvas
52 x 54 inches (132.1 x 137.2 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Arc de Triomphe
2018
Oil on canvas
52 x 46 inches (132.1 x 116.8 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Blown In
2018
Oil on canvas
52 x 42 inches (132.1 x 106.7 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Just Reward
2018
Oil on canvas
44 x 36 inches (111.8 x 91.4 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Reverse Direction
2018
Oil on canvas
44 x 36 inches (111.8 x 91.4 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Release
2018
Oil on canvas
43 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches (109.9 x 90.2 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Sweet Grass
2018
Oil on canvas
40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
A Rising Tide
2018
Oil on canvas
40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Before the Fall
2018
Oil on canvas
36 x 40 inches (91.4 x 101.6 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Night Fall
2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Accounting
2018
Oil on canvas
34 x 24 inches (86.4 x 61 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Head Land
2018
Oil on canvas
32 x 24 inches (81.3 x 61 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Prelude
2018
Oil on canvas
34 x 24 inches (86.4 x 61 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Taos
2018
Oil on canvas
32 x 20 inches (81.3 x 50.8 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
From Space
2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Down Draft
2018
Oil on canvas
28 x 24 inches (71.1 x 61 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Sea Life
2018
Oil on canvas
28 x 20 inches (71.1 x 50.8 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Went to Sea
2018
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
Ocean Fault
2018
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York
The Wind Doth Blow, 2018
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Curriculum Vitae
Mason has her second exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York.
Mason begins exhibiting at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe in New York.
Contemplating Color, a traveling exhibition of Mason’s paintings organized by LewAllen Galleries, is shown at LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe and at The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi.
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Curriculum Vitae
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Mason has her second exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York.
Mason begins exhibiting at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe in New York.
Contemplating Color, a traveling exhibition of Mason’s paintings organized by LewAllen Galleries, is shown at LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe and at The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi.
A solo exhibition of Mason’s prints opens at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont.
A solo exhibition of Mason’s paintings opens at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine.
A solo exhibition of Mason’s paintings opens at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she continues to show up through the present. An exhibition of Mason’s prints opens at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy.
Mason begins exhibiting at David Findlay Jr Gallery, New York, where she shows regularly through 2015.
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