Emmy Mikelson

contact: ekmikelson@gmail.com




Night Vision series 2022 - present



Emmy Mikelson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the strangeness embedded in familiar environments, revealing speculative worlds within our own.  Through references to microbial landscapes and dense forest ecosystems, her artwork and studies in psychology support an exploration of the unseen and unexpected in both environmental contexts and human interactions. 

She was raised in Iowa and lives in New York City, where she received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY.  Currently completing an MA in Psychology at the CUNY School for Professional Studies, her focus is on group dynamics and errors in cognitive reasoning, such as the misrepresentation of chance and the inability to perceive randomness.  These common errors in judgement -- not unlike a deer frozen in the headlights -- underscore prevalent social phenomena like conspiracy theories and paranormal beliefs.
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