Emily Kraus
Emily Kraus, Stochastic 17, 2023, oil on canvas, 1.7 × 3 m. Courtesy: the artist and The Sunday Painter, London; photograph: Ollie Hammick
Emily Kraus - The Sunday Painter
27 April – 10 June
Informed by her engagement with meditative and somatic practices, Emily Kraus makes paintings from within a metal cubic structure, built from scaffolding, which she describes on her website as ‘a shelter, a constraint, a tabernacle and a boundary’. The design was initially a response to the spatial limitations of her studio at London’s Royal College of Art. However, Kraus swiftly realized its creative and conceptual potential: with the canvas looped over rotating bars, the artist can only see a restricted section of the work at any one time, forcing her to rely on her own recollections of previous marks. The resulting canvases are judderingly rhythmic, beguiling and big. For her first solo show at The Sunday Painter, ‘Nest Time’, Kraus has produced canvases almost four metres high that oscillate between the organic and the mechanical, blurring marks like glitchy tide lines through repetition and time.
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