Emily Potts
Ultrasound, 2025
Gouache and charcoal on watercolor paper
11" x 14"

Artist Statement

Through my artmaking process I explore the relationship between the brain, the mind and the body through internal and external systems that regulate and process mental and bodily pressure and stress. I work to overcome the assumption that in order to heal something has to be completely resolved within the self. Instead, I offer that healing is an indescribable area, that is unmeasurable, and it is forever evolving and never finished. My overall vision for my work is to simulate the gesture and sensibility of a figure into systems that extend outside of the body but still allude to it in an unrealistic, imperfect, and nonfunctional way.

Artist Bio

Emily Potts (b. 1996 Houston TX, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice gives material form to invisible and chronic conditions. Emily's research focuses on the relationship between the brain, the mind, and the body in connection to function and disruption of internal and external processes. Her work has been exhibited at notable institutions regionally and nationally such as New York Academy of Art New York, NY, Mid-South Sculpture Alliance's Confab 2023 at the University of Oklahoma School of the Visual Arts, Norman, OK, the SAA Visual Arts Center, Springfield, IL, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights IL, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and LHUCA, Lubbock, TX. Emily graduated with her MFA in Sculpture in the Spring of 2022 from the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. Emily now lives in Howell, MI and works in East Lansing, MI. She teaches at Michigan State University as a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor in Foundations.

https://www.emilygracepotts.com

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