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Emma Steinkraus constructs immersive exhibitions that treat art history as a living archive primed for excavation and transformation. Her paintings draw on sources ranging from the Northern Renaissance and Pre-Raphaelites to contemporary painters like Haley Josephs and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Combining meticulous draftsmanship, dreamlike color, and photo transfers, she produces intricate compositions that examine art history, gender, and the more-than-human world.
Her work is developed through extended research-based series. Impossible Garden assembles imagery by more than a hundred historical women artist-naturalists into a panoramic wallpaper landscape, making visible an overlooked transnational lineage. In Princess Botticelli, Steinkraus brings together mythological, literary, and Renaissance sources to explore the porous boundary between humans and other species. Her current series, Pas de Deux, takes Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a point of departure, surrounding paintings of dramatic…
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Emma Steinkraus constructs immersive exhibitions that treat art history as a living archive primed for excavation and transformation. Her paintings draw on sources ranging from the Northern Renaissance and Pre-Raphaelites to contemporary painters like Haley Josephs and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Combining meticulous draftsmanship, dreamlike color, and photo transfers, she produces intricate compositions that examine art history, gender, and the more-than-human world.
Her work is developed through extended research-based series. Impossible Garden assembles imagery by more than a hundred historical women artist-naturalists into a panoramic wallpaper landscape, making visible an overlooked transnational lineage. In Princess Botticelli, Steinkraus brings together mythological, literary, and Renaissance sources to explore the porous boundary between humans and other species. Her current series, Pas de Deux, takes Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a point of departure, surrounding paintings of dramatic…
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