Emily Kraus
Emily Kraus, Cirrus, 2024.Photo: Courtesy of the Sunday Painter and Luhring Augustine
On the morning of December 4, throngs of well-heeled collectors from around the world made their way to the Miami Beach Convention Center for the 22nd edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. This year, there is a two-day special preview for VIPs before it officially opens to the public from December 6-9. The event marks the last stop on the art world calendar before the holidays, following a busy fall season of fairs including Frieze Seoul, Frieze London, and Art Basel Paris.
New York collectors Danielle and Matt Greenblatt were on the hunt for up-and-coming talent for their thoughtful and steadily growing collection of emerging artists. “It is a beautiful fair this year” says Danielle, who was excited about a few female painters including Emily Kraus at Luhring Augustine and Ambera Wellman, as well as a new discovery, Nino Kapanadze, a young artist from Tbilisi, Georgia.
Emily Kraus at Luhring Augustine
After joining Luhring Augustine’s roster just last month, Emily Kraus’s painting was a standout at the New York gallery’s booth. Her unique works are made by looping raw canvas around four stainless steel struts that function as rollers while anchoring the corners of her cube-like apparatus. She then applies paint, pulling the canvas around the structure, which spreads the pigment. While working, Kraus is only able to view a small section of the composition at a time, forcing her to reply on her visual memory. A delightful exchange of chance, memory, and machinery, Kraus’s rhythmic painting can be considered a fascinating documentation of the present moment that they were created.
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