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Emily Wang is a native and current resident of Cary, North Carolina. She is a Chinese American painter and flutist and a student at Duke University studying chemistry, statistics, and philosophy.
As a painter, Emily works primarily in oils. Her work combines impressionism and realism in an ongoing search for the quiet and mundane alcoves of nature. To Emily, art is not the practice of replicating beauty that meets the eye, but the act of finding beautiful potential in the simple and mundane, finding color where it’s grim and light where it’s dim. Ongoing curious observation and presentness in nature are essential to her creative practice. As a flutist, Emily especially enjoys elevating the works of marginalized composers, blending artistic mediums, and experimenting with musical textures and colors beyond the flute’s traditional bounds.Â
Emily’s work has been featured at the Skylight Gallery in Hillsborough, NC and in a Fall 2024 art and poetry pop-up project with Duke University’s Say the Thing. Her work is currently on view in the Blue Koi Gallery 2024 Natures Art Exhibition, Duke University Wellness Center, and Kakalak 2023 art and poetry anthology. As a flutist, she routinely performs as a soloist and chamber musician at Duke, and she has also performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Hanyang University in Seoul. She currently studies flute with Dr. Carla Copeland-Burns at Duke and is a former student of Mei He (visual art) and Mary Boone (flute), respectively.Â
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