About
Creating biomorphic imagery that references organs and cells, using rich luminous colors I reflect upon the various ways experiences within and conceptions of the body are altered. Drawing from cyborg theory, working within queer abstraction, and exploring my connection to a higher Source, I create in response to the question, “Why should our body end at the skin?”
As a young artist unable to match my external presentation with my gendered inner spirit, I developed my voice by creating layered somatic paintings of cellular structures. I represented the internal field of my body to counteract my resistance to represent precise human form. Over the past decade, this inquiry expanded my practice into silicone relief sculpture, immersive installation, and experimental video. Working in parallel to changing my sex, these processes led me to reflect on how the body is continuously constructed, undone and reimagined. The experimentation has created an abundant source of referential imagery that has led me back to painting.
In creating paintings of lush, unearthly color with compositions that reference but never depict human form, I contemplate an embodiment that rejects definition and seeks transfiguration. I look at my paintings, like the body, not as sites of completion or certainty, but as spaces of transcendence and conduits for continual becoming.
I live and work in Brooklyn, NY.
Email: emmett.metier@gmail.com
Instagram: emmett_metier