• ARTIST EMILY MASON’S STUDIO IS JUST AS SHE LEFT IT

    NEW YORK MAG
    Wendy Goodman, 1 March 2021

    Her paint-flecked smocks are still hanging on a hook, and the small footstools she perched on to study her work are in place. Her rocking chair, another vantage for studying her paintings, is nearby, as are a pair of her favorite velvet gondolier slippers, which she would buy on every trip to Venice.
  • CONSISTENTLY COOL

    ART IN AMERICA/ARTNEWS
    Jackson Arn, 11 Feb 2021

    Comprising twenty-two paintings made between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s, the exhibition “Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings,” at Miles McEnery, is a shrine to that indifference: the quiet confidence it demands, the glory it can bring.
  • EMILY MASON: CHELSEA PAINTINGS

    BROOKLYN RAIL
    Elizabeth Buhe, Feb 2021

    Even the most resolutely abstract artworks have a powerful associative capacity that allows the ascription of various real-world referents, a process akin to looking up at the clouds . . . Mason’s paintings accommodate the external world not only in their relation to nature but in their consummate openness to others.
  • 4 ART GALLERY SHOWS TO SEE RIGHT NOW

    NEW YORK TIMES
    Will Heinrich, 17 Jan 2021

    Cascading tides of bright yellows and pinks can easily look garish, and so can the often raggedy edges between them. It takes a little while to get used to the volume and pick out the subtleties. But once you do, you find constructions as delicate and deceptive as spider silk.
  • WITH A ROOM OF HER OWN, EMIILY MASON’S ETHEREAL ABSTRACTIONS BLOOMED

    HYPERALLERGIC
    Karen Chernick, 11 Jan 2021

    Chelsea Paintings, the newly opened exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, is the artist’s first gallery show since her death in 2019 and showcases 22 abstract paintings Mason made after moving her brushes and cat food tins full of pigment to 20th Street.
  • TRIBUTE TO EMILY MASON (1932-2019)

    THE BROOKLYN RAIL
    David Ebony, 12 Feb 2020

    Known as a consummate colorist in her brilliantly hued painterly abstractions, Emily Mason died on December 10, 2019, age 87, at her home in Vermont after a prolonged battle with cancer. December 10 is the birthday of her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson, and Mason regarded each of her paintings as a visual poem, aiming for the expressive, and—dare I say—spiritual quality that she found in Dickinson’s verse.
  • EMILY MASON TRIBUTE

    THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Neil Genzlinger, 7 Feb 2020

    “It is important to balance city life with experiencing nature,” Ms. Mason, a native New Yorker, told the magazine Western Art & Architecture in 2018. “Winter in the city is the time for the fermentation of ideas. Summer is my time to carry them out.”
  • PALETTE ENVY

    SANTA FE REPORTER
    Iris McLister, 24 April 2018

    Whether she set out intentionally or not to do so, Mason’s dreamily hued, lushly abstract paintings are delicious counterpoints to the work of some of her more macho peers. As abstract as they are, Mason’s process belies intention and remarkable control, even when paint is spilled, smeared or dribbled across a surface.