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Lin Emery
(New York, NY, 1926 – 2021, New Orleans, LA)
Lin Emery (b. 1926, New York, NY; d. 2021, New Orleans, LA) was an internationally acclaimed kinetic sculptor and visiting faculty at Tulane’s School of Architecture from 1969 to 1970. Best known for graceful and biomorphic metal forms, Emery trained informally in Paris, France, from 1949 to 1950 at the studio of Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine. She learned welding and bronze casting at the New York Sculpture Center, before moving to New Orleans in 1952. Along with six other artists, she founded the first cooperative gallery in the city, the Orleans Gallery, in 1956 on Royal Street. Among many accomplishments, Emery prepared the International Sculpture Conference in New Orleans in 1976, which included speakers Isamu Noguchi, Yaacov Agam, Hilton Kramer, Beverly Pepper, Irving Sandler, Seymour Lipton, and George Sugarman.
