Emily Zuch is a painter and adjunct professor living in Brooklyn, NY. She started teaching at BMCC in 2019, and also teaches at Pratt Institute and Wagner College. She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008 and an MFA from New York Studio School in 2011. Emily has received grants such as the Fulbright Research and Study award and the Hohenberg Award, and attended residencies including Yaddo, Jentel, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center.
“My paintings explore the interchangeability of the real and unreal, and ways to straddle the very fine line between the two. I achieve this effect by setting up my studio with mirrors, reflections in windows, cards and reproductions of other paintings, then paint the whole scene directly from life. The paintings are filled with everyday objects from my studio, but by placing them in a certain way they become unfamiliar. By positioning a mirror or a window at a certain point in the composition a completely ordinary room comes apart to show a strange and fragmented world.”