Emily Mae Smith

(Born) 1979 in Austin, TX, USA
(Based) Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Emily Mae Smith makes lively and humorous paintings that are full of allusions to art historical movements like Symbolism, Surrealism and Pop-art. Underneath this visual wit, Smith addresses timely and relevant topics like gender, sexuality, capitalism and violence, thereby making her paintings multi-layered. One of the recurring characters in her work is a broomstick figure that she started using because it allows her to paint a domestic tool associated with women’s labour, a painter’s brush and a phallus symbol at the same time. This figure continuously evolves throughout her oeuvre and takes on a broad variety of forms and guises.
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Recent solo exhibitions include: CFA, Berlin, Germany, The Pond Society, Shanghai, China; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA USA; Marion Art Gallery, Panama City, USA; Rockefeller Arts Center, New York, NY USA; SUNY Fredonia, New York, NY USA; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT USA; Le Consortium Museum, Dijon, France; SALTS (with Adam Henry), Basel, Switzerland.

Select group exhibitions include: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., WA USA; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, LA USA; 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH USA; Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY USA; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH USA; Public Art Fund, New York, NY USA.

Smith’s work is included in collections such as Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal, Canada; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, ATX USA; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH USA; The Consortium Museum, Dijon, France; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX USA; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., WA USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, LA USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, LA USA; Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA; Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia.

Images

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  • Emily Mae Smith, A Candle Makes Its Own Fuel
  • Emily Mae Smith, A Candle Makes Its Own Fuel
  • Emily Mae Smith, A Candle Makes Its Own Fuel
  • Emily Mae Smith, A Candle Makes Its Own Fuel
  • Emily Mae Smith, Technical Ecstasy
  • Emily Mae Smith, Saint and Sinner Study
  • Emily Mae Smith, Heretic Lace
  • Emily Mae Smith, Heretic Lace
  • Emily Mae Smith, Heretic Lace
  • Emily Mae Smith, Speculative Objects
  • Emily Mae Smith, Brush with Flame
  • Emily Mae Smith, Speculative Objects
  • Emily Mae Smith, Sentient Sea
  • Emily Mae Smith, Speculative Objects
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Brush and The Flame
  • Emily Mae Smith, Painter
  • Emily Mae Smith, Speculative Objects
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Studio (Speculative Objects)
  • Emily Mae Smith, Feast and Famine
  • Emily Mae Smith, Feast and Famine
  • Emily Mae Smith, Feast and Famine
  • Emily Mae Smith, Wake Tank
  • Emily Mae Smith, Big Sea of Tears
  • Emily Mae Smith, Study of The Slippers
  • Emily Mae Smith, EX LIBRIS
  • Emily Mae Smith, EX LIBRIS
  • Emily Mae Smith, Ginkgo Girl
  • Emily Mae Smith, Badland Bonnie II
  • Emily Mae Smith
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Slippers
  • Emily Mae Smith, MATRIX 181
  • Emily Mae Smith, MATRIX 181
  • Emily Mae Smith, Emily Mae Smith
  • Emily Mae Smith, Emily Mae Smith
  • Emily Mae Smith, A Name Unfamiliar, Underlined in Red, Henry + Smith, curated by Ugo Rondinone
  • Emily Mae Smith, Patience on the Rocks
  • Emily Mae Smith, study for The Riddle
  • Emily Mae Smith, Prehistory Pastoral (The Studio)
  • Emily Mae Smith, Tesla Girls
  • Emily Mae Smith, Rogue Wave
  • Emily Mae Smith, Tesla Girls
  • Emily Mae Smith, Minor Threat
  • Emily Mae Smith, Madame X
  • Emily Mae Smith, Slow Burn
  • Emily Mae Smith, Honest Espionage
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Continental
  • Emily Mae Smith, Western Tale
  • Emily Mae Smith, King Leer
  • Emily Mae Smith, Broom study Psychologist
  • Emily Mae Smith, Unrealism, co-organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian
  • Emily Mae Smith, Still Life
  • Emily Mae Smith, Unrealism, co-organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian
  • Emily Mae Smith, Waiting Room
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Mirror
  • Emily Mae Smith, Over the Shoulder
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Psychologist
  • Emily Mae Smith, In the Garden (The Studio)
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Studio (Sleeping Teapot)
  • Emily Mae Smith, The Inspector
  • Emily Mae Smith, Holes
  • Emily Mae Smith, RSVP (Sausage Party)

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