Emily Coan is a painter and drawer inspired by the lineage of women as tale-tellers, particularly the weavers of myth and literature, Coan’s work examines the art of creating the tale itself. From the Moirai of Greek myth and Ovid’s tale of Philomena, to the German Spinnerinnen and the Brothers Grimm, the connection between weaving and the female voice in fairytale remains at the heart of her recent work. Considering herself “a storyteller painter” – she creates visual fairy tales that will, in her lifetime, build out an entire world.
Emily Coan (b. St. Petersburg, Florida) lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY. In 2013, she received her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Florida and moved to New York City in 2015. In 2018 she attended Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Residency in Woodstock, NY, and the Macedonia Institute Residency in 2020. Coan has recently exhibited in group shows with DIMIN, New York; Nino Mier, New York; Monya Rowe Gallery, New York; De Boer, Los Angeles; Gowen Contemporary, Geneva; CH and Kutlesa, Goldau, CH. "Spider Silk" at DIMIN was Coan’s fourth solo show in New York and her first with the gallery.