Emily Rankin was born in Riverside, California and attended university in Abilene, TX where she received a BFA in 2011. Her body of work ranges from Graphic Design and Scenic Painting to collaborative performances with Verstehen, an interactive series which incorporates live painting, sound, and electronics. She is currently based in New Mexico.

There’s something mesmerizing about tangles. Something frightening and comforting all at once about knowing something is so completely knotted-up that it will never be undone. Emily has always been interested in tangles and knots, in the ways in which dreaming and wakefulness, reality and dissociation, what is felt and what is expressed, become intertwined. To that end, her work explores liminal space and the ways in which we as humans strive for connection with each other and within the tangled web of ourselves. She often uses her synesthesia—the ability to see color and texture within sound—both as a vehicle to collaborate with artists in other mediums as well as inspiration in her solo work.

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