Emma Safir in "5 Artists on Our Radar in October 2021"

While completing an MFA in painting and printmaking at Yale, artist Emma Safir developed a complex artistic language of lush textures and disorienting patterns and prints. By masterfully manipulating textiles through weaving, stitching, scrunching, and pleating, Safir creates mesmerizing works that play with illusion and materiality, mimicking the appearance of digital glitches and moiré patterns.