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Emma TapleyArcadia, Winter Moon 2, Shimmering, Atmospheric Contemporary Landscape, 12x16 in2025
2025
$3,200
£2,439.10
€2,813.24
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NOK 32,950.73
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Arcadia Winter Moon presents a quiet, contemplative landscape where slender trees rise through a hushed, snow-like ground beneath a muted, moonlit sky. The composition feels both sparse and immersive, drawing the viewer into a liminal space suspended between stillness and growth. Delicate branches and restrained foliage emerge with a sense of fragility and persistence, suggesting nature’s quiet endurance through winter.
Subtle animal tracks cross the pale surface, introducing a quiet narrative of unseen life moving through the landscape. These gentle impressions offer a human-scale point of entry, reminding the viewer that even in apparent stillness, the environment remains active and inhabited.
The surface of the painting reveals subtle areas of gilding embedded within the composition. These luminous passages catch and reflect light softly, creating a restrained shimmer that shifts as the viewer moves, evoking moonlight filtering through a winter forest. This nuanced use of metallic elements enhances the work’s atmospheric depth while preserving its meditative calm.
Rendered in a limited, tonal palette, the painting balances abstraction and representation, inviting prolonged looking rather than immediate resolution. Arcadia Winter Moon offers a sense of quiet introspection, where material nuance, subtle narrative detail, and poetic restraint converge in a work that feels both timeless and intimate.
- Creator:Emma Tapley (1967, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU416317458702
Emma Tapley
Emma Tapley (American, born 1967) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and has studied at the Pratt Institute and the New York Academy of Art. She has been exhibiting her work for 25 years, and has shown extensively both nationally and internationally. Tapley’s realist paintings of the natural world often take years to complete as she gradually builds layers of carefully placed brush strokes. What results are representations tending toward abstractions of nature viewed from unusual perspectives. She disorients and challenges the viewer with her renderings of inverted reflections in water and cropped details of larger vistas. Tapley had multiple solo exhibitions with Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, as well as solo and group shows internationally. Tapley is the recipient of the UCross residency in Wyoming, Art Shed residency in Sointula, British Columbia; Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, NY, Vermont Studio Center, Herhusid Residency in Iceland, and the Jentel Foundation residency in Wyoming. Tapley’s dizzying paintings are gleeful acts of deception and subtle commentary on the notion of farce inherent in painting. Ranging from dutiful translations of trees, skies, and flora, to impressionistic renderings of forests, they take the tenets of landscape and turn them on their head. Tapley obfuscates or eliminates horizon lines, crops out canopies and root systems, and makes porous the boundaries between foreground, midground, and background. Without these anchors, literal tethers to the terrestrial plane, Tapley’s landscapes transcend the space of reality. Tapley allows the paintings to expose themselves as paintings, peeling back the pretense of representation to show the tricks and techniques that go into recreating reality. This quality of self-awareness adds to the levity of Tapley’s paintings, permitting them to wink as they toy with the fabric of reality.
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