Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction - Curated by AOAP
27 FEBRUARY 2024 - 12 MARCH 2024
Timed Auction
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About
Emily Kraus (She/Her) (b. 1995) received her Painting MA from the Royal College of Art in London (2022) and a BA in Religious Studies from Kenyon College (2017).
Education
BA Religious Studies, Kenyon College, USA
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
Select Exhibitions
2023
Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London
Echoes Across Surfaces, Duarte Sequeira, Portugal
Matija Čop and Emily Kraus, Sapling Gallery, London
Young and Restless, the Stable Gallery S-chanf, Switzerland
2022
Buffer, Guts Gallery, London
My Mother was a Computer, Indigo+Madder, London
Awards
2023
Bloomberg New Contemporaries
John Moores Painting Prize, Shortlist
Hopper Prize Winner
Gallery Representation
The Sunday Painter
Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
I am zooming in on the minuscule mark: Small and unassuming yet containing a world. Focusing on transmutation with a festering intimacy. I wonder if it has to do with control. I hold in my hand these tiny worlds. I have always worked big but now it is small. These ‘breath stacks’ illustrate the space in between. You must get close to them to see them, to see into them. Perhaps you even hold your breath when you look at them, not because they are breath-taking but so that the vibration of recycling air does not disrupt your eyes’ delicate focus on speleothems made of dust. Solid and impalpable, incorporeal, intangible.
I am working with charcoal – a breath-like material. It comes from burning, from death, and then it is made into a new object of creation. I think of the myths of gods with the power to breathe life into creatures. I imagine myself a god, using this material wrought from destruction to create anew.
I am playing inside the micro-mark transfiguring the macro mundi.
“By focusing on breath, life becomes a performance.” –Kaprow
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