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Information Studies Colloquium: Virtual Landscape: Simulating Space with Painting & Technology with Emma Webster
April 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Please join us for our next IS Colloquium on Thursday, April 10, 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the Reading Room, 3340 Moore Hall. There will be refreshments to follow.
Abstract:
Webster, an artist of fantastical landscapes, will discuss her practice of concretizing the virtual in paint and give an overview of her creative process in the studio. The talk will explore the origins of the virtual, digital space as avatar, and the new frontiers of sculpting with technology.
Bio:
Emma Webster was born in 1989 in Encinitas, California, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her BA from Stanford University in 2011 and received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2018.
Webster’s work is part of various public collections around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Xiao Museum, Rizhao, China; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas; and the Groeninghe Art Collection, Bruges, Belgium.
Webster has two current solo exhibitions this spring: That Thought Might Think with Petzel in New York and Vapors with Perrotin in Hong Kong. Other recent solo exhibitions include Perrotin, Hong Kong (2025); Perrotin, Paris (2024); Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2023); Perrotin, Dosan Park, Seoul (2022); Stems Gallery, Brussels (2021); and Alexander Berggruen, New York (2021). Group exhibitions include Petzel, New York (2023); Max Hetzler, Berlin (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego (2022) among others.
In 2021, Webster published Lonescape: Green, Painting, & Mourning Reality, a collection of musings on landscape and image-making in an increasingly digital world. Both this artist book and her eponymous monograph, published by Perrotin in 2024, are available online.