Emma Schwartz
Bio: Emma Schwartz was born in 1992 in Toronto, Canada and raised in Nashville, TN. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2019. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Most of the paintings I have made in the last year have low relief figures built up on the surface. Lately I have been making rubbings of the reliefs which then turn up in other paintings. For myself, in the studio, there is a threshold between the familiar and unfamiliar. I am looking for the membrane between the two, the surface tension of the container that separates them.
L to R: Balmy Party (11" × 8.5", Pencil on paper, 2019); Untitled (figure study), (11" × 8.5", Pencil on paper, 2019); Visitor (11" × 8.5", Pencil on paper, 2019); Goodnight Cap (11" × 8.5", Pencil on paper, 2019)