About the work

Lately I’ve been thinking about mortality. When we die, are we reborn? Into what? What kind of transformation occurs? In my painting “Junk the Morgue - Purple”, a metal object containing a fleshy orifice lies on top of a purple starry sky. The eye must travel downwards through the orifice to reach the stars, signifying a rebirth into something new. The title nods to dropping all earthly possessions, including the body, to allow for total absorption into the cosmos.

-Emily Furr, March 2022

About the artist

EMILY FURR (b. 1978, St. Louis, MO) is a New York based visual artist who received her MFA from Hunter College, NY in 2018. Her work has been reviewed in ARTFORUM and Hyperallergic as well as being featured on the cover of New American Paintings’ 25th Anniversary Edition. In 2019 she was an artist in residence at the Watermill Center, Watermill, NY. Furr has exhibited at Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY; 12.26, Dallas, TX; Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA; Maria Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; Achenbach Hagemeier, Berlin, Germany. In February 2021, Furr opened her first museum solo exhibition, Star Tap, at the SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA.