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① Artwork:
Spellbound
This painting is a depiction of the artist’s fascination with the ecstatic and nearly religious nature of sports events — particularly cheerleading — as seen through the lens of her small-town, mid-western upbringing. Here, one can feel an intense, almost ecstatic emotion from the figure emphasized through washed-out lighting and a mysterious domestic interior.
Emma Beatrez’s artistic process encompasses sculpture, painting, video, and installation, with influences ranging from the occult to her midwestern upbringing. 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.
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③ Artist:
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.
Emma Beatrez was born in 1995 in New Prague, MN, and lives in Minneapolis, MN. They earned their MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2020) and their BFA from North Dakota State University (2018).
Beatrez has mounted solo exhibitions at Nemeth Art Center in Park Rapids, MN (2024), HAIR+NAILS in Minneapolis, MN (2022), and Fierman Gallery in New York, NY (2022).
They have also participated in shows at LVL3 in Chicago, IL; Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, NY; Swivel Gallery in New York, NY; Guts Gallery in London, UK; and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN.
Beatrez is the co-founder/curator at Night Club Gallery in St. Paul, MN, alongside artist Lee Noble.
