Emma Safir makes paintings using fabric manipulation, lens-based media, smocking, rasterization, upholstery, and digitization. Her paintings function as screen simulations, proxies, and portals. Safir holds a BFA in Printmaking from RISD and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale. She has had solo exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, Blade Study, Baxter St at CCNY, SHIN HAUS at Shin Gallery, and Bunker Projects, and has participated in group exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Charles Moffett, Jack Barrett, and Lyles & King, among others. She lives and works in New York City.

As part of BICA School’s regular Thursday night meetings, but open to all Safir will walk us through her exhibition Passionate Wretch and her practice more broadly as a special preview to her opening on Friday.