With influences like the occult, her midwestern upbringing, and the hidden and overt symbolism and rituals inherent in our everyday lives, Emma Beatrez’s artistic process encompasses sculpture, painting, video, and installation. Her recent paintings explore core psychoanalytic notions of the symbolic, the real, and the emergence of new meanings through the distortion and recontextualization of established iconography. Images flicker between personal and public, taking shape in a state of flux.