OM.2023.034 - Emilie Lemakis - USA
Bio
Emily Lemakis Emilie lives and works in New York City. She
maintains a studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn and has worked as a security guard at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 28 years. Her day job has been the source of
many of her creative projects, which recently include a campaign for wage
transparency, for which she created buttons for her co-workers showing the
number of years they’ve worked there and their hourly wage--which elicited a
write-up in the New York Times outlining her pathbreaking project as well as
her art and life as a Met guard.
Statement
I work in a variety of media because the art I make is about
my whole life and the many people, places, and things I encounter that pique my
curiosity and imagination. Large-scale drawing, sculpture made from found
objects, photography, video, children's arts and crafts, and short performance
are all part of my personal arsenal that helps me bring to life artwork that’s
in an ongoing conversation with my everyday existence: to make what’s invisible
visible--to myself and to others.
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