About

Emily Filler’s paintings walk the line between the real and the imaginary. There is a sense of the familiar, but also the feeling that you are falling into a dream – flowers act as a departure point to a world that dissolves into abstraction.

Filler weaves together painting, printmaking and photography in her ‘painterly collages’, bringing together panels of color, meticulous patterning and floral elements. Dense mark-making contrasts with airy clouds of transparent color and screen-printed florals reveal themselves from behind cut and torn paper and canvas. As these processes and elements …