Emerson Dorsch presents Mette Tommerup OCEAN LOOP

Friday, January 26th from 6-9pm Emerson Dorsch is proud to present a new exhibition Ocean Loop by Mette Tommerup. For this solo exhibition, Tommerup will create a complex installation from over a hundred paintings, objects and ephemera, invoking a narrative stream of information and imagery.

“In her ambitious installation Ocean Loop, Mette Tommerup marries the virtual and the physical, creating an immersive experience that uses the ocean as a springboard for an exploration of the way the mind works in our digital world. Tommerup’s connection to the ocean is an elemental one. As a native of Denmark, she grew up in a small coastal town in a country whose history, back to the Viking days, is entwined with the sea. She now lives in Miami close to Biscayne Bay. Her studio offers a view of the harbor from which she was able to view the devastation wrecked by Hurricane Irma in the fall of 2017 while she was preparing this work.” An excerpt from the essay Out to Sea by Eleanor Heartney published in the exhibition brochure for Mette Tommerup: Ocean Loop. A widely published art historian, Eleanor Heartney is author of Defending Complexity: Art, Politics and the New World Order (Hard Press Editions, 2006) and a co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art (Prestel Publishing, 2007), which won the Susan Koppelman Award, among other books.