Emily Joyce

Emily Joyce was born in 1976 and educated at the Glasgow School of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1998). Joyce’s paintings investigate mathematics and its resonance in the natural world as well as art history through pattern based and rhythmic abstraction. Her paintings often have a spark humor and playfulness because she adds a purposefully awkward gesture or anomaly to the composition that humanizes the rigorous geometry that is the foundation of her work. Joyce has exhibited work and participated in projects at Human Resources (Los Angeles), Machine Project (Los Angeles), Hauser and Wirth (Los Angeles), Inman Gallery (Houston), The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), The Tang Teaching Museum (Saratoga Springs), and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and more. This winter her work will be included in the exhibition Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting at the MCA Denver. Her book of poetry “A Cigar Caught In The Lilies” will be published by Hesse Press (Los Angeles) in April of 2019.

  • Emily Joyce Criss-Crossed Columns Emily Joyce
    Criss-Crossed Columns
  • Emily Joyce Milanese Pentagon Emily Joyce
    Milanese Pentagon
  • Emily Joyce An Isolated Pearl Emily Joyce
    An Isolated Pearl
  • Emily Joyce Famous Potatoes 6 Emily Joyce
    Famous Potatoes 6
  • Emily Joyce Satellites Emily Joyce
    Satellites
  • Emily Joyce Corner Columns Criss-Crossed Emily Joyce
    Corner Columns Criss-Crossed
  • Emily Joyce Doric Glitch Emily Joyce
    Doric Glitch
  • Emily Joyce Doric Rhyme 1 Emily Joyce
    Doric Rhyme 1
  • Emily Joyce Doric Rhyme 2 Emily Joyce
    Doric Rhyme 2
  • Emily Joyce Doric Rhythm 1 Emily Joyce
    Doric Rhythm 1
  • Emily Joyce Doric Rhythm 2 Emily Joyce
    Doric Rhythm 2
  • Emily Joyce Nude at the Mirror Emily Joyce
    Nude at the Mirror
  • Emily Joyce Archimedes and Narcissus Emily Joyce
    Archimedes and Narcissus
  • Emily Joyce Unconquered Sun Emily Joyce
    Unconquered Sun
  • Emily Joyce Installation view Emily Joyce
    Installation view
  • Emily Joyce Three Expanding Bodies or Marble Bowling Balls Emily Joyce
    Three Expanding Bodies or…
  • Emily Joyce Mariposa Lillies Emily Joyce
    Mariposa Lillies
  • Emily Joyce Louise Bourgeois Emily Joyce
    Louise Bourgeois
  • Emily Joyce Rubin Vase Retina Emily Joyce
    Rubin Vase Retina
  • Emily Joyce Sue the Tenant 5 Emily Joyce
    Sue the Tenant 5
  • Emily Joyce Travel Agency Emily Joyce
    Travel Agency
  • Emily Joyce Well Beth Emily Joyce
    Well Beth
  • Emily Joyce Conversations in the Mist Emily Joyce
    Conversations in the Mist
  • Emily Joyce Sue the Tenant 2 Emily Joyce
    Sue the Tenant 2
  • Emily Joyce Edible Arrangement Emily Joyce
    Edible Arrangement
  • Emily Joyce Kingdom of Earth Emily Joyce
    Kingdom of Earth
  • Emily Joyce My 20s Emily Joyce
    My 20s
  • Emily Joyce Installation view Emily Joyce
    Installation view
  • Emily Joyce On the Final Commute of the Year Emily Joyce
    On the Final Commute…