Emilie Louise Gossiaux (born 1989, Metairie) is an American multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in New York City.[1] She creates drawings, ceramics, and installations.[2]
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Her work engages with themes of interdependence and the entanglements of humans and animals, in conversation with the scholarship of Donna Haraway[3] and recent work in disability studies. A 2022 Brooklyn Rail review of her exhibition Significant Otherness described Gossiaux's sculptures and drawings as "...shot through with the radical intimacy that accompanies recognition of our mutual enmeshment."[4] She has been recognized with numerous awards.[1][5] In 2023, Gossiaux and Georgina Kleege held a public conversation on her work.[6] Institutions where her work has been shown include MoMA PS1,[7] the Queens Museum,[8] SculptureCenter,[9] Kunsthall Trondheim, and the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.[10]
Life
editGossiaux was born in Metairie, Louisiana, near New Orleans, and raised in the nearby suburb of Terrytown. She became interested in art at a young age,[11] but in high school she preferred printmaking and etching to drawing.[2] She began losing her hearing age age five,[3] which worsened as she grew older. While attending Cooper Union, she moved into an apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn with her then-boyfriend in 2009. In May 2010, Gossiaux underwent an operation to receive a cochlear implant.[11]
In October 2010, Gossiaux was hit by a truck while riding her bicycle in Brooklyn, resulting in cardiac arrest, "a traumatic brain injury, a stroke and multiple fractures in her head, pelvis and leg". Initially unresponsive at Bellevue Hospital,[3] medical staff told her parents she would likely not recover. However, Gossiaux became responsive over a month after the accident, and was transferred to NYU Langone Medical Center’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. The accident did leave her blind.[11] The story of her recovery was profiled in a 2011 Radiolab episode[12] which has been recognized for its storytelling and emotional impact.[13] Gossiaux's description of being in a coma had an impact on Ira Glass.[14] In 2016, during her recovery, she was profiled on the Today show.[15]
Gossiaux went on to graduate from Cooper Union in 2014 with a BFA, and began attending graduate school at Yale University in 2017, where she graduated with an MFA in sculpture in 2019.[1][3]
To adapt to losing her sight, she received 11 months of rehabilitation training at BLIND Incorporated in Minneapolis.[3] During her training, she began working with clay as a medium.[2]
She considers herself to be a disability rights activist.[3]
Work
editMany of Gossiaux's sculptures and drawings feature her guide dog London, with whom she has "an interdependent relationship that crisscrosses between maternal, spousal, emotional, and practical."[2][16] In an Art in America interview, Gossiaux describes her drawings as "giving [London] a kind of agency, and in daily life, she gives me agency too."[17] Since 2020, Gossiaux has not made any art depicting humans besides herself and her partner, Kirby.[2]
In an interview with The Paris Review, Gossiaux calls her process of drawing a "tactile experience". She keeps a ballpoint pen pressed against the paper and is able to feel the impression made by the line.[18] Gossiaux has described the imagery in her work as "mainly from touch memories, for example, the feeling of London's tongue on my hand, or the feeling of her claws on my foot".[19]
Gossiaux was a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Queens Museum for the 2022-2023 year.[3] She was a 2024 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship.[1]
Exhibitions
editGossiaux's previous solo shows include After Image at False Flag Gallery (2018) and Memory of a Body at Mother Gallery Beacon (2020).[1]
In 2020, Gossiaux's work was included in the exhibition In Practice: Total Disbelief at SculptureCenter.[20]
In 2021, Gossiaux's sculpture piece Dancing with London (2021) was included in the exhibition Crip Time at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany.[2]
In 2023, Gossiaux received her first institutional solo-show at the Queens Museum, titled Other-Worlding.[3] That same year, she contributed several ceramic pieces to Finnegan Shannon’s exhibition "Don’t Mind if I Do" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.[3]
In 2024, Gossiaux had her first European solo-show, titled Kinship, at Kunsthall Trondheim.[21]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Emilie Louise Gossiaux". Joan Mitchell Foundation. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ a b c d e f McDermott, Emily (2023-12-06). "Emilie L. Gossiaux: Freedom of Movement". artreview.com. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Sheets, Hilarie (2023). "Her Guide Dog Inspired Her Art. Now the Lab Stars in a Museum Show". The New York Times.
- ^ Packard, Cassie (2024-07-30). "Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Significant Otherness". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ "School of Art Alumna Emilie Louise Gossiaux Receives the 2024 Ida Applebroog Grant". The Cooper Union. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ "Other-Worlding: Artist Talk by Emilie L. Gossiaux, in Conversation with Georgina Kleege (Virtual)". Grey Art Museum.
- ^ "Artists Make New York: Emilie Louise Gossiaux". MoMA PS1. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Other-Worlding". Queens Museum. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Emilie Louise Gossiaux". www.sculpture-center.org. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ Fries, Kenny. ""Crip Time" - Criticism". e-flux. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ a b c Fernandez, Manny (December 21, 2010). "Hit by a Truck and Given up for Dead, a Woman Fights Back". The New York Times.
- ^ "Finding Emilie". Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC Studios. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ Wen, Tiffanie (2015). "Inside the Podcast Brain: Why Do Audio Stories Captivate?". The Atlantic.
- ^ "'Like nothing else you'll ever hear': the 20 best podcasts ever". The Guardian. 2023-07-07. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ "Meet the blind artist who has deeper connection with art after accident". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Emilie L. Gossiaux". Wordgathering. 16 (4). Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ Watlington, Emily (2022-10-12). "Emilie L. Gossiaux: Drawing Beyond Sight". Art in America, via ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ Haigney, Sophie (2023). "Our Cover Star, London: An Interview with Emilie Louise Gossiaux". The Paris Review.
- ^ "Interview, Emilie Louise Gossiaux" (PDF). Kunsthall Trondheim. 2024.
- ^ "In Practice: Total Disbelief". SculptureCenter. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ "Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Kinship - Announcements". e-flux. Retrieved 2024-09-29.