Jody Emery
Artist in Residence
Jody Emery uses carefully selected bits of scrap metal to create relief works on sheet metal. In her work she explores the paradoxical nature of using scrap metal, industrial and man-made, tangible and unforgiving, to express the shape and feel of forces in nature, geometric and organic, visible and invisible, galaxies and microcosms. The spiral is a recurring shape in the work, its design found in such essential structures as DNA, botanical growth patterns, galaxies in the universe. Inherent in its design is a repeating, recurring, revisiting, a coming back around again but at each time, each rotation, having gained momentum and forward progression. Jody earned her BFA from UW-Madison and then spent fifteen years in New York working as a graphic artist and illustrator. In 2008 she returned to Wisconsin to receive a teaching certification in Art Education at UWM. She divides her time between making art, raising two kids, and teaching art to elementary and middle school students.
www.emerymetalworks.com
