Jeni Emery is a New York City-based artist originally from Los Angeles. She holds a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design, and received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from The Art Institute of Chicago in 2019.  Working to enhance the seductive visual interest of her surfaces, Emery uses unconventional media like sand, wax and chalk to add texture to her paint. The supports for these paintings range from canvas to drop cloths to bedsheets to silkscreen mesh; all lending a sublime materiality to the work. With their valleys, peaks, nooks, and crannies of color and form, her work often weaves in and out of abstraction and landscape. Since graduating last Spring, Emery has had solo exhibitions with SalonLB and SYTSY in Chicago, and has shown in group exhibitions with Elmhurst Art Museum, The Research House for Asian Art, Ground Level Platform, 062, and JAW Gallery.