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Horizons | Emily Legleitner

Horizons | Emily Legleitner

In Conversation: Emily Legleitner
In the news: Emily Legleitner
Artist Statement

Horizons features two bodies of work in tandem: One, a series of portraits documenting self-empathy, the other of objects in abundance addressing contradictory emotion and confusion. Both series consider moments of great transition and associated complex emotional responses. My current studio research centers around themes of home, domestic space, labor, and unfulfilled dreams. I am considering the ways in which these spaces are often accompanied by contradictory feelings: home as a space of comfort and confinement, labor as a motivator and a distraction, dreams as experiences that can both fulfill and disappoint. My imagery is largely informed by portraiture and body play, as I use the body and props to perform in front of a camera. I investigate visual language through lens-based inquiry, combining digital imagery with scanned drawings, rubbings, misprints, and studio ephemera. In this way, my creative methodologies dance between the digital and analog realms of making, allowing for a certain distance to develop between personal narratives and the work itself. This distance invites the audience to imagine their own narratives within the work, while still influenced by the personal stories I am illustrating, and therefore creating a unique space to foster empathy.

Artist Bio

​Emily Legleitner is an MFA candidate in Printmaking at the University of Alberta. Originating from Flint, Michigan, Legleitner works within the expanded fields of print media, fibers, and metalworking. Her printed imagery is informed by lens-based inquiry, performance, and the body. She received a BFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has garnered critical acclaim throughout the Midwest and East Coast United States, winning first prize at "2021 Prints,” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Gallery (BWAC); Best of Show in 2020 "Body Building: Art of the Human Figure,” Indianapolis Art Center; and Best of Show in the 2019 "Michigan Greater Artists Exhibition,” Midland Center for the Arts; among other awards. Her work has exhibited in numerous acclaimed print shows and been published in the London based print journal Printmaking Today (2018). Legleitner’s most recent work has shown in solo exhibitions at Sager Reeves Gallery (Columbia, MO) and Buckham Gallery (Flint, MI). She has an upcoming solo exhibition at BWAC (Brooklyn, NY) in July 2022.
Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

Our activities are sponsored in part by an award from the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL  and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. 
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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
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  • Home
  • Exhibitions
    • Summer Exhibitions >
      • Heidi Brueckner
      • Craig Hinshaw
      • Michael Weigman
    • Early Summer Exhibitions >
      • Barriers & Preservers | Margaret Davis
      • Endless Endeavors | Benjamin Muñoz
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • 2023-2024 Season Call For Entry
      • BIPOC is The Theme
      • PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • 2021-2022 Exhibition Schedule
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • BIPOC is The Theme! >
        • BIPOC Artists for Feature Exhibition
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Dialectics and the Decommodified: The Spectres of Capital- Morgan Craig
        • Textures of the Southwest- Robert Huebel
        • All the Pretty Little Horses- Chris Waters
      • Small Talk >
        • Viewing Room
      • December Exhibitions >
        • Horizons | Emily Legleitner
        • Indexing Schizophrenia | Diane Zeeuw
        • Seeking Solace | Rebecca Zeiss
      • Black & White
      • Entropy >
        • Viewing Room
      • Late Summer Exhibitions >
        • Hyper-Tension: Matthew Owen Wead
        • Nigrescence Comics: Kenish Magwood
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • Beastly Luster: Kelly Boehmer
        • No Dark In Sight: Bill Davis
        • Penchant: Devan Horton
      • Early Summer Exhibitions >
        • Selvage: Jim Arendt
        • At Home: Candace Compton Pappas
      • Subtle Shifts
      • Disrupted Realism
      • Late Winter Exhibitions >
        • Chad Erpelding: Gains and Losses
        • Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay: Appropriated Figure-Grounds
        • Jordan Vinyard: Summary of A Few Volts
      • JANUARY 2021 >
        • Karen Milito
        • Nancy Pennell
        • Linda Lou Woodruff
      • December 2020: United By One >
        • United By One: Allen
        • United By One: LaBret Einstein
        • United By One: Haylett
        • United By One: Hershman
      • November 2020: BAC Exhibitions >
        • A Climate Of Change: Viewing Room
        • Shadows: 2020 Buckham Print Exchange
      • October 2020: Serious Play >
        • Serious Play: Andy Hill
        • Serious Play: Timothy Kranz
        • Serious Play: Sifus J Thompson
      • September 2020: Dear Memory, >
        • Aj Cooke: Fragmented Place
        • Michele Leclaire
        • Lauren Scavo-Fulk
      • August 2020: Ineffable Benedictions >
        • Matthew Osmon: Private Insurrection
        • 0591: People First
        • Rachel Singel: Metamorphosis
      • July 2020: Verisimilitude
      • Feb. 2020: Eros and Thanatos >
        • Eros & Thanatos: Award Winners
      • Jan. 2020
      • November 2019 Exhibitions
      • Oct.2019 FEVER VESSELS >
        • Press Release: Fever Vessels
      • FIELD WORK: Sept. 2019
      • BIG CLAY - August 2019
      • Crush: July 2019
      • May 2019: Terre Voce
      • April 2019: Allegories to Anatomies
    • Art Money
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    • Calendar
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    • Past Events
    • Past Artist Talks >
      • Jan. 10, 2020: Artist Talks with Ardea Thurston-Shaine and Dominique Chastenet de Gary
      • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
      • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
      • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and Amy Gibas
      • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
      • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine Leclaire
  • PROJECTS
    • BFAP: On Screen >
      • On Screen Artists
      • FAQ
    • BFAP: Interns
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      • 2021-2022 WIR Call
      • Shea Phire Cobb
      • Natasha Thomas
    • Collaborators at Karmanos
    • Emerging Artist with UM-F
  • About Buckham
    • Mission Statement
    • Board and Staff
    • Buckham Artist Collective
    • Buckham Community Membership
    • Founders Feature >
      • FOUNDERS FEATURE: THOMAS NUZUM
      • Founders Feature: Sam Morello
      • Founders Feature: Ken Kinyon
      • Founders Feature: John Dempsey
      • FOUNDERS FEATURE: GUY ADAMEC
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