Folktales and Fever Dreams

After nearly 30 years of working and exhibiting, Paul Emberger has uncovered a throughline in his artistic practice. Interiority. This is his first exhibition to juxtapose disparate, serendipitous images from his archive. Each is a metaphor for a piece of himself: his traumatic childhood, his relationship with aloneness, accepting his neurodiversity, working through anxiety, and his lifelong search for “home.”

Emberger is a photographic artist producing intimate carbon-on-cotton prints. His work is an introspective journey through melancholy, nostalgia, and wonder. He has exhibited in the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Biennial, taught at the New York Film Academy, and served on the board of The Doshi Center for Contemporary Art. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.