Art Emerge Gallery

Art Emerge is an artist-owned online abstract art gallery. We simplify sophisticated art collection by hand-selecting talented artists with thriving careers– exhibiting their shows and making their works available online. Connect with us or directly with our artists.

Todd Williamson’s work is strongly influenced by ‘the abstract expressionist movement’ of the 1950s in New York. Williamson has exhibited extensively in both the United States and abroad. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including multiple Pollock Krasner Foundation Award Grants, Best Foreign Artist-Bluduemila Sporte & Arte Italy, two Artslant International Abstract Showcase Awards, and an Artistic Merit Award from Art 1307 Cultural Association in Italy. Solo exhibitions include "California Dreamin' an uncertain paradise,'' at the MAC Museum Art & Cars in Singen Germany, and museum shows at the New Museum Los Gatos, MOAH Museum of Art & History, the Cica Museum Korea, and the Ercolanense Museo Portici Italy.

Over the course of several intense months, Los Angeles-based artist Todd Williamson developed a unique application process for oil painting—a traditional medium that he now provides a new meaning and reinterpretation for. By wiping, sanding, scraping, and dry-brushing, over and over again, until the level of opacity and subtle color variations is achieved, Williamson creates unique layers of dreamlike palettes onto the canvas.  Some colors float on the surface, broken only by small squares of deeper colors that are then sliced through with a darker paint, metaphorically referencing the elusiveness of life’s stability and permanence. 

The overall effect of this stunning new series is powerfully reflective of the tremendous emotional and psychological challenges and transitions that have occurred during this last couple of years, and of the human spirit’s tenacity and ability to hold out during the most trying times in our most recent collective history.  Williamson poetically captures the complicated and almost surreal space we have lived, not only as individuals but also as part of the collective.

Justin Garcia is a time architect, influenced by the timeless connection between art and science studied by DaVinci. His lifelong fascination with aging and how change occurs over time led him to undergo a deep self-psychoanalysis through the abstraction of his first seven series spanning over a decade.

All of Garcia’s earlier works are pieces of a larger puzzle. To analyze, document, and assemble this puzzle, he took two years away from the art scene, several months of which he spent isolated in central Mexico. There, he mapped and constructed a theoretical model that captures the intersection of experience, awareness, and control across time and subject matter (Humanity’s Sustainable Infinite).

“Walls of Time,” his eighth series, focuses on the complexity of time and the human perception of it through the simplicity of aging walls as architectural structures representing reality. It is precisely the walls around us that bring a sense of solace when confronting concepts of time and its infinite effect.