Resident Artists

Lin Emery

“My sculpture is kinetic, meaning that it moves. The elements are derived from nature, and I borrow natural elements – wind, water, magnets- to set them in motion. Infinite variables influence the rhythms: the points of balance, the normal frequency of each form, and the interruption of the counterpoise. I juggle, juxtapose, and adjust to achieve the dance or pantomime that I want. The sculpture takes over and invents a fillip of its own?” – Lin Emery.

Lin’s Hungarian father died when she was three. Although the family home was in Larchmont, New York, Lin’s mother spent the winter season in Florida and kept her daughter with her. This meant shuttling between a fall and springtime school in suburban New York and a winter school in Florida. She provided the structure to earn college entry credits during her final full year in a boarding school with a Rudolf Steiner curriculum. At age 16, Lin entered Columbia University. From there, she continued changing schools, attending Syracuse University, the University of Mexico, the University of Chicago, and the Sorbonne. Whenever there was free time from classes, she painted and drew on her own. In Paris, she spent evenings drawing from a model, and, noticing a sculpture studio taught by Russian artist Ossip Zadkine, she enrolled. It was there that she found that sculpture would be her life.

On returning to the United States, she learned welding and casting at the New York Sculpture Center. Settling in New Orleans, she turned her living quarters into a fully equipped studio.