Emily Hermant
Open Studio and Artist Talk
Saturday January 31, 2026, 3-5pm, Artist Talk at 3pm
BoxoPROJECTS 62732 Sullivan Road, Joshua Tree, CA 92252

Emily Hermant’s artworks examine the materiality of communication through the reuse of cast-off telecommunications and transmission materials. Drawing from textile-based processes and working through slow, labor-intensive methods, these materials accumulate into tactile surfaces and forms. During her residency, Hermant has been inspired by how the natural structures of the desert can echo the material logics of weaving—the buildup of form through tension and accumulation. The rocky contours and formations of the Joshua Tree landscape have become a new source of pattern. The outlines of the desert are reinterpreted as landscape-derived signals, shaping new compositions informed by place, repetition, and subtle variation. The desert has offered Hermant new ways of exploring how meaning is carried, glitched, and transformed over time.

Artist Bio
Emily Hermant (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the materiality of communication. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montréal, QC, Canada, and her MFA with a Trustee Merit Scholarship in Fiber & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, South America, and Europe. Emily has attended artist residencies at the Burrard Arts Foundation, Haystack, ACRE, Ox-Bow School of Art, The Ragdale Foundation, Nordic Artists’ Centre, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is based in Vancouver, Canada, where she is Associate Professor of Sculpture + Expanded Practices in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Hermant is represented by Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver BC.

Artist website: Emily Hermant