The O-town Scene

FEATURED ARTIST Emily Falco Contributed photo Emily Falco Emily Falco, a 26-year-old artist living in West Daven- port, is featured in the winter edition of Watercolor, a quarterly magazine produced by the acclaimed national magazine American Artist. She was nominated this past fall by Watercolor as one of the top 25 up-and-coming watercolor artists in America. Falco is an Oneonta native, having left after graduat- ing high school to attend The Cooper Union in New York City to study fine art. She lived for several years in Brooklyn and for a brief period in the southern Adiron- dack Mountains. Falco is primarily a watercolor painter because she says she has a fondness for the transparency, fluidity and unforgiving nature of the medium. Having grown up near the Golden paint factory, she also has an admiration for painting with acrylic, and preferred to paint on large canvases during her early years of college. She turned to watercolor later on, somewhat out of necessity, because she was living in a small studio apart- ment and had very little space to store canvases. Drawn to the idea that many paintings on paper could be stored in a portfolio, she began her practice with watercolor, and soon it became her most familiar and loved medium. This past summer, Falco moved back to the Oneonta area where she and her boyfriend are renovating an early 19th century farmhouse alongside Charlotte Creek. After having experienced a fast-paced, big-city life- style, Falco says she welcomes the breadth and calmness of the countryside: "I find Oneonta to be a wonderful and inspiring area, and I am excited to have both the mental and physical space for creating art." Falco received national recognition for her art in 2009 when her Brooklyn-based postcard and notecard sets were featured on the "Martha Stewart Show," live on NBC. She is looking for new outlets in which to showcase her work, and accepting inquiries for commissioned portraits and landscapes. For more information, visit www.emilyfalco.com or email emilylouisefalco@gmail.com. 8 O-Town Scene Feb. 9, 2012 'A Browstone Portrait,' 17 1/2 x 14", 2008 'Blurred on the Bowery,' 21 1/4 x 21 1/4", 2008 'Rainwalk,' 9 x 11", 2009

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