Emily Wise (b.1988) was born and raised between upstate New York and Baltimore, Maryland. She received a BFA in Painting from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, where she currently lives and works. Driven by curiosities around femininity, intimacy, and the mysteries of the natural world, Wise paints carefully posed bodies amidst surreal flora, using unexpected fluorescent colors to both surprise and disarm. Beneath their vibrant surfaces, Wise’s paintings craft layered stories of women building relationships with themselves and their follow women in spaces somewhere between the realities of waking life and the limitless possibilities of dreams.
