Emery Vanderburgh

Artist

Emery Vanderburgh is a multimedia artist based in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal.

Her work explores disability and the interplay of science and art.

The Disabled Body in Motion

Still Life

Floral Fasciation

Therma

A figure wearing a jacket, corset and dress. Ropes extend from the dress, anchoring it to rocks on the floor. The figure wears a sheer mask with six cross-stitched eyes in three rows and red cross-stitched lips. Pearls line the face and form a tiara in the shape of a serotonin molecule.

Depression in Translation

A digital rendering of a multi-color sunflower made of small particles, with light shining behind.
Sunflower (animation still) Floral Fasciation, 2024
a colorblocked photo of three legs, one prosthetic clad in a yellow ferring (cover) with mermaid scale cutouts. The foot and second leg match its yellow.
Alleles Product Photo, collaboration with McCauley Wanner, 2019
Alleles product photo, collaboration with McCauley Wanner, 2018
a pink flower with a second, smaller head on one side with peculiar petals coming off of it
Pink Fasciation, Floral Fasciation, 2024
a butterfly shape made of blue inky smoke
Therma (animation still), 2023
an abstract digital ink drawing of intricate line work in dark greys and whites.
Deconstructions, 2023
photo of an amputee's leg and residual limb, with their prosthesis beside. It has been digitally drawn over in a swirling style that uses colors from anatomical drawings.
Specimens (animation still), 2022
A macro photograph of a crested cactus' spikes
Crested Cactus, Floral Fasciation, 2024