STUDIO VISIT: EMILY THOMAS
MAR. 02, 2017
STUDIO VISIT: EMILY THOMAS
MAR. 02, 2017
Emily C. Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Memphis, Amsterdam, and California.
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/IMG_2009.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
Born and raised in Memphis, she received her BFA from New York University and her MFA from UC Santa Barbara.
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/IMG_2003.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
She enjoys animals, reading, investigating mysteries, and exploring the symbolic construction of reality.
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/IMG_2019.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/IMG_2055.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/IMG_1843.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
My art practice revolves around materializing visionary states of consciousness using installation, animation, film, sculpture, painting, photography, and sound in order to fabricate self-reflecting worlds of initiatory experience.
- Emily Thomas, 2017
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/IMG_2022.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/IMG_2026.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location beside an electric power station in Memphis, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
She also creates works on-site at Yellow Bird Artscape (Woodbury, TN) - pictured below...
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/yb_rock-carve.JPG)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/yb_rock-carve-2.JPG)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
![Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress) Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)](https://locatearts.org/uploads/blog/yb_zodiac-rock.jpg)
Emily Thomas, Studio Visit, February 2017 (on location at Yellow Bird Artscape in Woodbury, TN / many works pictured are in-progress)
* Images from Yellow Bird Artscape courtesy of the artist