Emily Wick explores how altering sensory input reveals new worlds hidden in plain sight. Subscribe to her newsletter “Have You Seen This Phenomenon?” on Substack here.
Emily’s work has been featured in KQED Arts (“When Everything Feels Backwards, Emily Wick Raises a New Flag“) and The Guardian (“Mapping Out the American Dream“) and shown in galleries throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Her two films Buried Stories (2008) and Life With Alex (2012) have been shown in film festivals across the U.S. She has been an artist in residence at the Morris Graves Foundation and Beechwood Arts Center, and ran Oakland art space Smokey’s Tangle from 2009 to 2018. Emily has spoken about time at Parsons School of Design, about reflections at Pratt Institute, and led a workshop on color at the University of Redlands.
Emily Wick lives and works in Oakland, California. She has been photographing soap bubbles on a daily basis for the past five years. She is currently seeking out optical phenomena described in the 1954 book The Nature of Light and Color In The Open Air by Marcel Minnaert.
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