{"id":101013,"date":"2026-01-09T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=101013"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:12:49","slug":"in-2026-emily-plewe-opens-her-studio-to-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/in-2026-emily-plewe-opens-her-studio-to-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2026, Emily Plewe Opens Her Studio to Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emily Plewe<\/span><\/span><\/a> enters 2026 amid a significant shift in how\u2014and how much\u2014she is able to work. After a career change and a move that brought both her home and studio into new alignment, she says, \u201cI am now working full-time in the studio,\u201d a change that\u2019s allowing her to build on a decades-long engagement with science-informed abstraction.

Plewe has spent the past 25 years creating work \u201cinspired by concepts in quantum physics,\u201d and that focus continues to drive her current output. She is now \u201ccreating new paintings, drawings, and mixed media work,\u201d and notes that some works now include video projection. Each piece is anchored in sustained inquiry: \u201cEach artwork deeply delves into a specific concept in quantum physics or cosmology, for which I do extensive research before and during the creation of each piece.\u201d While her sources are scientific, her aim is not explanatory. \u201cMy work seeks not to explain or illustrate these scientific theories and concepts,\u201d Plewe writes, \u201cbut rather to explore them using abstraction and conceptual approaches,\u201d while still ensuring that \u201ccorrect and up-to-date knowledge of scientific concepts underpins each piece.\u201d<\/h4>\r\n
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Work in progress: “FUNCTION 2, 2024-2025, acrylic, graphite and mixed media on canvas, 48×48 in. In the new year, Plewe is experimenting with activating her paintings with video overlay (see below).<\/p><\/div>\r\n

In 2026, her research process itself is expanding. \u201cI\u2019m particularly excited to open up my process to include conversations with physicists as part of my research,\u201d she says, signaling a more dialogic approach to how new work takes shape. She\u2019s also continuing to push technically: \u201cI\u2019m also very excited to deepen my exploration of video and other media integrations in the work.\u201d<\/h4>\r\n

That expansion builds on ideas articulated in her artist statement, where she describes work that \u201cexplores themes of interaction, energy, and interrelationships,\u201d shaped by a long-standing engagement with physics. \u201cI find these concepts to be endlessly fascinating and evocative,\u201d she writes, noting their ability to illuminate \u201cthe workings of the universe at micro and macro scales,\u201d as well as \u201cthe deeper conceptual and metaphysical questions which inevitably arise from these theories and discoveries.\u201d<\/h4>\r\n

Plewe situates art as a tool for thinking across disciplines. \u201cAs an artist, I believe in the power of visualization,\u201d she states. \u201cIt can expand understanding and push boundaries in all manner of disciplines,\u201d particularly through \u201cthe process of intuiting visuals for things which may not even be visible or even truly knowable.\u201d<\/h4>\r\n

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Emily Plewe enters 2026 amid a significant shift in how\u2014and how much\u2014she is able to work. After a career change and a move that brought both her home and studio into new alignment, she says, \u201cI am now working full-time in the studio,\u201d a change that\u2019s allowing her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":101014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual_arts","category-whats-new"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/plewe-headshot-with-unfinished-work.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 21:05:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101124,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101013\/revisions\/101124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}