“Seven Shows to Catch Across the US This May” by Maddie Hampton

Emily Kraus - Luhring Augustine, New York

If much of Emily Kraus’s work is given over to the pleasing vibrations of steady patterning, ultimately her paintings are made less by the repetition than the moment when it falters. The works come into their own through the glitches where, despite a mechanism designed to reproduce sameness, human touch prevails. If her process is best understood through the sparser composition of a work like Hopping Time, where the remnants of her initial mark echo out, framing her gesture within the lines of its progressively fading shadow, then the potential of her practice reaches its apex in a painting such as Burl, a work defined by its many subtle, undulating interruptions (both works 2026). Woven seamlessly into the compositions, these intervals where continuity breaks offer a quiet, near subconscious contrast to the predictability of repeating lines. Carrying the conceptual crux of the work, they illustrate the challenge of creating variance against the will of a machine which is programmed to reproduce uniformity. 

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