Emmy Bright:Pink Pearls
@ RUSCHWOMAN
2100 S Marshall Blvd Unit 105 Chicago, IL 60623
Opening Sunday, May 18th, from 3PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, July 6th
RUSCHWOMAN is filled with (happy, joyful, excited, humble) Big Gay Tears at the news of Emmy Bright’s upcoming solo exhibition at the gallery, opening Sunday, May 18th from 3-6pm.
Emmy Bright
“Pink Pearls”
May 18 – July 6, 2025
Opening Reception: Sunday May 18th, from 3–6pm
RUSCHWOMAN
2100 S. Marshall Blvd., Suite 105
Chicago, IL 60623
From the press release:
When RUSCHWOMAN invited Emmy Bright to gather up some of the soft pink things that have made appearances in the work, none of us knew that beneath those blushing cheeks (and sheets, and ceramic trays, and metal casts) would be LOVE and DEATH, those most crucial of cultural underpinnings, those most emo and most urgent of tropes by which we understand our own existences. The stakes are high; the gestures are flouncy; the posturing is in repose. In a rhapsody of pleasure-principle-death-drive upset, this promiscuous body of work keeps it together—integrating contradiction, pink-eraser erasing divisions, riding away into the sunset on proposals for unending questioning.
Forms of love: pockets full of posies, pairs of pebbles, puppy bellies, poetry, mementos (and their goth sisters, memento mori), mix tapes, melancholy, relics, remembrances, camp connoisseurship and the drive to collect, humor, horror, hysteria, hamfisted hijinks, diaries, whimsy, what all is revealed by one’s preferred flavors of jelly beans, blood, sweat, tears (see also: big gay), gore, an intentional divestment from discrete monolithic notions of selfhood.
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