Installation views of Hydra, 2023, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York. Photos by Daniel Terna.
Press release.
Nag Nab
2021
silkscreen ink, graphite and acrylic on hand-dyed paper
digital cprints
Presented at Love Gallery (solo)
March 23, 2021 to April 19, 2021
Stove Works as part of I’m Not a Cartoon
September 24, 2021 - November 20, 2021
Nag Nab, an acronym for not all good not all bad, is a reflection on holding space for contradiction. The show comprised painted, silk-screened, and collaged works on hand-dyed printmaking paper along with two snapshot-sized, black and white photographs. Using imagery sourced from cam models, pornography, dancers, cartoons, including an ode to Mike Kelley, the works on paper layer erotic forms and performing bodies onto a saturated orange-red ground.
My Mother Laughs, 2021, collage, acrylic, silkscreen ink, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
Installation view, Nag Nab, Love, New York, NY (2021)
Trigger I, 2021, acrylic, graphite, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
Installation view, Nag Nab, Love, New York, NY (2021)
Not All Good Not All Bad, 2021 acrylic, graphite, ink, watercolor, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
Installation view, Nag Nab, Love, New York, NY (2021)
Double column, 2021, black and white digital print, 8 1/4 x 6 inchess
In the Life
2019
video, 33 min
Screened at Cicco as part of Revenant Cri Sis
December 7, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Love Club as part of just give the money to her
June 29, 2019
Emily Clayton returns to her home in rural West Tennessee in ‘In the Life’ (2019), where she documents the life of her mother, a retired sixth-grade school teacher and an addict. In the Life centers in and around her mother’s modest home, which has become a hideaway for her boyfriend James and other transient young men. Emily’s camera use is sober and noninvasive. Clayton stops filming when asked and respects closed doors. The eerie sense of being a visitor of a place in crisis looms in the whispers and the references to unexplained events in the dialogue. Clayton’s family and house guests seem to all be waiting for an event that has yet to happen. Yet, through sharp editing cuts and the use of the audio of voicemail from friends back in NY, Clayton reminds us that she is only a visitor and these people's lives will continue on here without her.
- Norman Chernick-Zeitlin
video stills below
Someone Thinking of You
2020
silkscreen ink, graphite and acrylic on hand-dyed paper
9 prints, five unique editions + suplimanetal drawings, 56 works in series
Someone Thinking of You reproduces segments of an unpublished erotica manuscript I wrote in 2017 commissioned as part of a series of all female-authored erotic fiction. Originally envisioned as a political revenge fantasy and subsequently edited into a cryptocurrency thriller, the manuscript is shown in its third iteration and contains both my writing (typed) and the publisher's edits (handwritten)—himself an artist. Through redaction, overwritng, and questions of what is permissible, the work serves as a container to consider hierarchies of power, gender, and authorship. Five unique editions make up the series. Each contains 9 prints: one print for each of the book's six chapters, the cover, the protagonist’s backstory, and appendix drawings.
Cover, 2020, silkscreen ink, acrylic, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
Chapter 1, 2020, silkscreen ink, acrylic, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
About the Author, 2020, silkscreen ink, acrylic, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
Chapter 5, 2020, silkscreen ink, acrylic, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
Chapter 6, 2020, silkscreen ink, acrylic, dye on paper, 63 x 42 inches
Skins
2014 - 2018
acrylic, dye on jersey spandex
Presented at Kate Werble as part of Mirror Mirror
July14 - August 14, 2015
Susan Inglet as part of Body Image
June 11 - July 31, 2015
80WSE
April 20 - May 31, 2015
Installation view, 80WSE, New York, NY (2015)
Installation view, 80WSE, New York, NY (2015)
We were enmeshed, 2018, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 54 x 66 inches
Bad Blood, 2016, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 39 x 47 inches
Meth, 2016, acrylic, dye, toner print on jersey spandex, 46 x 60 inches
Meth (deatial), 2016, acrylic, dye, toner print on jersey spandex, 46 x 60 inches
Femur (01), 2016, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 39 x 47 inches
Femur (02), 2016, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 46 x 60 inches
Femur (03), 2016, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 36 x 48 inches
First skin, 2012, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 32 x 52 inches
Untitled, 2014, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 63 x 40 in
Untitled, 2015, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 36 x 52 inches
Installation view, Kate Werble, New York, NY (2015)
Untitled, 2015, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 36 x 52 inches
Untitled, 2015, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 53 x 36 inches
Untitled, 2017, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 53 x 42 inches
Untitled, 2015, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 53 x 42 inches
Untitled, 2014, acrylic, dye on jersey spandex, 75 x 60 inches