Emily Warren

Emi is a realist painter living and working around Nashville, TN. She studied Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York before getting her MFA in painting discourse from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Emi's work was part of the Holiday Salon show at Gallerie Tangerine and is part of the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library. She teaches full-time and continues researching the effects of image generators and contemporary painting.
I paint intimate hyperrealistic oil paintings to identify and define borders. Tangible and symbolic borders define space, create order, establish exclusions, and solidify or threaten relationships. My work analyzes the conceptual and destabilizing nature of borders. I paint domestic artifacts, moments in time, that destabilize the illusion of representation.

Occasionally, I use the same exploration of representational borders to explore the future of painting. For example, as Artificial Intelligence image generators proliferate our digital spaces, my work continues to examine symbolic borders by collaborating with AI image generators and painting the results using traditional oil painting methods.

I use solvent-free traditional oil painting techniques. The haptic nature of...

Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA

Holiday Salon Show, Galerie Tangerine, Nashville,TN 2022-2023

Brooklyn Art Library. 2018-present

Solo exhibition, VCFA, Montpelier, VT, July, 2021

Group Exhibition, Montpelier, VT, Winter 2021

Group Exhibition, Montpelier, VT, Summer 2020

Group Exhibition, Montpelier, VT, Winter 2020

Group Exhibition, Montpelier, VT, Summer 2019

University Club of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2019

The Towne Centre Theater, Nashville, TN, 2019

Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, 2019

Jerry Goldstein Award in 2019

Janet Kaplan Memorial Scholarship from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Work exhibited by private collectors.