NADA Miami 2021

Emma McMillan’s paintings are often in conversation with architectural space and the narrativization of bodies within, compressing multiple perspectives into effulgent hyperspaces. As Kat Herriman, writing for Artforum puts it, “The relationship between these layers, surface and underpainting, is contentious. McMillan’s scratchy facture is scar-like. Her surgical aesthetic brings out the corporeal qualities of paint and the mechanical aspects of the body...The artist folds time over itself, and the results are romantic, biting.”

Emma McMillan (b. 1989, Atlanta; lives and works in New York) gained her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2012. Solo exhibitions: Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation, New York; Atlanta Contemporary,
Atlanta; Édouard Montassut, Paris; Lomex, New York; Bad Reputation, Los Angeles; Selected group exhibitions: Peter Freeman Gallery, New York (presented by Alex Katz); Praterstrasse 32/308, Vienna; Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York; Swiss Institute, Rome; Lomex New York. The artist’s work has been the subject of extensive media coverage in Artforum, Flash Art International, Guernica, and Mousse, among
numerous other publications. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Museum fur Moderner Kunst Vienna and the Albertina Museum.