Parade, 2025, terracotta, wood, wire, rope, and found objects, dimensions variable
Emily Harter
California, USA
Visual
Graduate Fellowships, 2025
Stanford
↗ www.emilyharter.com
Artist Statement
Emily Harter is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, CA. 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 a wide array of references, including Netherlandish genre painting, the satirical prints of Hogarth and Daumier, and the Golden Age of American cartoons, she aims to interrogate identity, obligation, and that ol’ horizon of desire.
While at Headlands
While at Headlands, I will be making a series of paintings and ceramics examining early modern ideas of folly, informed by texts such as Sebastian Brant’s ‘Das Narrenschiff/ Ship of Fools’ and Erasmus’ ‘Praise of Folly’.
