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Tracey Emin: I Followed You To The Sun<\/p>\n

Published on the occasion of Tracey Emin’s fifth solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin,\u00a0Tracey Emin: I Followed You To The Sun<\/i>\u00a0features a very personal collection of works entitled the\u00a0Lonely Chair drawings<\/i>. In this series of self portraits, Emin depicts a solitary female figure in her signature gestural style. The images are drawn from self-portrait photographs and convey poignant emotions of longing and sadness. Emin’s writing is interspersed throughout the book, further illustrating the subconscious nature of the drawings.\u00a0A book signing will take place on Wednesday, 1 May from 5 to 7 PM at 201 Chrystie Street<\/strong>. Available for purchase on the gallery’s\u00a0webstore<\/a>\u00a0in conjunction with her solo exhibition.<\/p>\n

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Tracey Emin: My Photo Album<\/p>\n

Published by FUEL, My Photo Album is a photographic journey through the life of Tracey Emin, culled from her personal collection of photo albums that she has kept since childhood. These poignant photographs, accompanied by Tracey’s handwritten notes, reveal the intimate moments that have shaped her life, and influenced her work: from her early family life to the pivotal Young British Artist movement of the 1990s. Virtually all 283 images have never before been published. By turns tender and extrovert, these photos simultaneously document both the blossoming of an artist and a unique period in art history, from Emin’s singular viewpoint. Available for purchase on Lehmann Maupin’s webstore.<\/p>\n

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Tracey Emin<\/p>\n

I Followed You To The Sun<\/p>\n

2 May – 22 June 2013<\/p>\n

540 West 26th Street & 201 Chrystie Street<\/p>\n

New York, 18 April 2013\u2014Lehmann Maupin is honored to present Tracey Emin\u2019s fifth solo show in New York from 2 May to 22 June 2013. Tracey Emin: I Followed You To The Sun is a two-part exhibition featuring over 100 works of art, including a series of new bronze sculptures, paintings and drawings, embroideries, and a short film. Lehmann Maupin has published a special artist monograph on the occasion of the exhibition. The gallery will host a book signing with the artist at 201 Chrystie Street on Wednesday, 1 May from 5 to 7 PM. The following evening, on Thursday, 2 May, Tracey Emin will be present for opening receptions at 540 West 26th Street and 201 Chrystie Street from 6 to 8 PM.<\/p>\n

Regarded as one of the world\u2019s most significant contemporary artists, Tracey Emin is internationally recognized for her blunt and revealing style, which elicits a broad range of emotions from shock to empathy to self-reflection. Drawing on personal experiences, Emin often reveals emotional situations with brutal honesty and poetic humor in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, embroidery, neon, installation, sculpture, and film. This sprawling, two-part exhibition covers all aspects of Emin\u2019s creative output and continues to reveal her most intimate internal narratives.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of Emin\u2019s newest exhibition is a series of seven bronze sculptures that she created over the past year at the Long Island foundry used by Louise Bourgeois, with whom Emin had collaborated before her death in 2010. Each bronze is engraved with the artist\u2019s poetic confessions, and like ancient sarcophagi, are adorned with tiny animal figurines and hand-sculpted human figures.<\/p>\n

At 201 Chrystie Street the focus is on a very personal collection of gouache on paper drawings entitled Lonely Chair drawings, which are the primary subject of the accompanying exhibition catalogue. In this series of self-portraits, Emin depicts a solitary female figure in her signature gestural style. The images are drawn from photographs Emin took of herself in France and convey poignant emotions of longing and sadness.<\/p>\n

The show will also feature a short film entitled \u201cLove Never Wanted Me.\u201d The film follows a wild fox on the grounds of a secluded estate as Emin narrates a haunting account of the pain associated with fleeting love, saying at one point, \u201cThe broken heart is a lonely world and this is the love that I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December 2013, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, will present the first solo museum exhibition devoted to Emin\u2019s work in the United States. Curated by Bonnie Clearwater, the Museum\u2019s Executive Director, Angel Without You will focus solely on Emin\u2019s use of neon, a medium that she began utilizing in 1997. Since then, Emin\u2019s illuminated confessions rendered in her personal handwriting have become widely regarded for their poignancy and the universality of her message. This past February, Emin debuted her first public project in New York\u2019s Times Square, as part of Midnight Moment organized by s[edition], the Times Square Advertising Coalition, and Times Square Arts. Each night from 11:57 PM to Midnight, six of her most iconic neon messages were screened on the Times Square Jumbotrons in a silent and moving tribute to love.<\/p>\n

Tracey Emin (b. 1963, London) was raised in the seaside town of Margate on the English coast. After leaving school at an early age, Emin enrolled at the Maidstone College of Art, Kent, to study printmaking. She continued her studies at the prestigious Royal College of Arts, London, where she earned a Master\u2019s degree in painting. In 1999, Lehmann Maupin presented Tracey Emin\u2019s first solo exhibition in the United States, Every Part of Me\u2019s Bleeding. Following this critically acclaimed exhibition, Emin exhibited her infamous installation \u201cMy Bed\u201d at the Tate Gallery, for which she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. In 2007, she was chosen to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale, becoming the second female artist to ever do so. That same year, Emin was made a Royal Academician and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, a Doctor of Letters from the University of Kent and a Doctor of Philosophy from London Metropolitan University. In January 2013, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Emin a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Emin has been the subject of a number of retrospective museum exhibitions around the world, including a major solo show at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina, which encompassed a collection of her early films (2012); She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea, a solo exhibition at Turner Contemporary in her hometown of Margate (2012); and Tracey Emin: 20 Years, the artist\u2019s first retrospective which originated at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2008), before traveling to the Centro de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo, M\u00e1laga (2008) and the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2009).<\/p>\n

Emin\u2019s work can be found in many of the world\u2019s most prestigious public collections, including the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; British Museum, London; Camden Arts Center, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Denver Art Museum; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow; Hara Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, London; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Saatchi Collection, London; San Francisco Museum of Art; Tate Gallery, London; and Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

The artist lives and works in London, England.<\/p>\n