Interflow presents recent painting and mixed media works on paper by New York-based artist Emna Zghal. Color and line continually search for boundaries they never find. Forms emerge to take on shapes that feel simultaneously familiar and foreign. Though the canvas fights to act as a boundary, poetic lines overflow into infinite space. Each mark acts in unison with the next to challenge the seemingly simple nature of line itself. Emna Zghal’s artwork elicits a never-ending network of nerves pulsing with colorful abstractions and an energy that suggests organic patterns in a continual search for form.
Emna Zghal is a Tunisian-born U.S. based visual artist. She was trained in
both countries and exhibits widely. Her work is in many noted public
collections such as The New York Public Library, Yale University, and The
Museum For African Art in New York. Reviews of her work appeared in The New
Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum.com, and ARTnews, among others.
Additional distinctions include fellowship residencies from the MacDowell
Colony, the Women’s Studio Workshop, the Newark Art Museum, and the Cité
Internationale Des Arts in Paris. She is one of Creative Capital Foundation
2008 grantees.
Emna Zghal: Interflow was organized by the Museum for African Art, New York.
[...] Interflow presents recent painting and mixed media works on paper by New York-based artist Emna Zghal. Color and line continually search for boundaries they never find. Forms emerge to take on shapes that feel simultaneously familiar and foreign. Though the canvas fights to act as a boundary, poetic lines overflow into infinite space. Each mark acts in unison with the next to challenge the seemingly simple nature of line itself. Emna Zghal’s artwork elicits a never-ending network of nerves pulsing with colorful abstractions and an energy that suggests organic patterns in a continual search for form. [...]