EMILY CAISIP

Biography + Curriculum Vitae + Statement

BIOGRAPHY

Emily Caisip is a freelance illustrator, designer and fine art painter and a native of Los Angeles. She attended UCLA for her BA in economics, and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for her BFA in Illustration.  Her many art influences include Alfonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Lucian Freud, Frida Kahlo, The Clayton Brothers and Margaret Kilgallen.  The biggest influences, however come from everyday life - people on the streets, pages in a book, current events, the environment, friends and family.  She currently works and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Education

1998  Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, BFA Honors - Illustration

1992  University of California, Los Angeles, CA, BA - Economics

Solo Exhibitions

2005  M1-5 Gallery, Tribeca, NY - 'Love Deluxe'

2003  Superfine, D.U.M.B.O., NY - 'Floating'

2003  Cafe bAr Gallery, New York, NY - 'Gustav's Dream'

2003  Bliss Cafe, Williamsburg, NY - 'La Luna'

2002  Doghouse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - 'Soledad'

2002  Bliss Cafe, Williamsburg, NY - 'Reverie'

1999  Westside Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 'Round the Bend'

Group Exhibits

2008  Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 'BAG'O NEO/New Modernism'

2007  Thacher Gallery, USF, San Francisco, CA - 'To Hedonopolis From Melancolony

2007  Remy's on Temple, Los Angeles, CA - 'Overmapped' Traveling exhibit

2007  SomArts Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 'Overmapped'   

2006  M1-5 Gallery, Tribeca, NY - 'For a Few Artists More'

2006  Sweet & Vicious, New York, NY - 'So Much Water So Close to Home'

2006  M1-5 Gallery, Tribeca, NY - 'Cinco de Mayo'

2005  M1-5 Gallery, Tribeca, NY - 'Hustlenomics'

2003  Carlos Irizarry Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico - 'Fortunate Fool'

2003  HERE art center, SOHO, NY - 'Eccentric Concentric'

2002  Hyperbole, Brooklyn, NY - 'Lorca'

2000  Ignite Gallery, New York, NY - 'Natural Shocks'

2000  New York International Film Festival, New York, NY

1999  SIPA Silent Auction, Los Angeles, CA

1998  Art Center Gallery, Pasadena, CA - student exhibit

Publications

1999  New York Times Book Review

1998  Harper's Magazine

1998  Society of Illustrators - student competition

Awards And Recognitions

1999  Art Center 100, Pasadena, CA - scholarship

1998  Society of Illustrators student competition - honorable mention

1998  Art Center College of Design Scholarship

Other Art And Design Experience

2008  Just Terraces - commissioned mural

2007  Gabriele Wolf - commissioned painting

2006  Hitomi Materese - commissioned series of paintings

2006  Kage FX - silkscreening studio intern

2004  Maple Street School, Brooklyn, NY - mural

2003  Groundswell Mural Project - artist/muralist

2003  JenGan Jewelry - business cards

2002  Greenspace Garden, Brooklyn, NY - mural

2002  Eileen Serrano Vales - commissioned painting

2002  Aktina Medical - graphics for brochure

2002  Ogilvy & Mather - storyboards for Miller Lite ads

ARTIST STATEMENT

As an artist, I create from experience and reflect the world around me.  My paintings meander between dark and monotone and brightly colorful.  As I look back fifteen years to my entire body of work, I see the development of the hand of a technician, the mark of the artist, my signature. I describe my current work as 'quiet chaos', reflecting the moodiness or somberness that I notice in my everyday world.  This pictorial world stemmed from a few lines drawn on a painting at the end of 2005, and grew into this intricate detail of lines intertwining. This pulse of movement, of growing and contracting, arresting and accelerating, in multiple directions, is an endless encounter, a continuous passage.  It simply exists.  It is simply experienced.