Emily Kraus

Emily Kraus

Bio Selected Works
Buffer, Guts Gallery, London, 2022
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Buffer, Guts Gallery, London, 2022
Matija CÌŒop and Emily Kraus, Sapling Gallery, London, 2023
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Matija CÌŒop and Emily Kraus, Sapling Gallery, London, 2023
My Mother was a Computer, Indigo+Madder, London, 2022
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My Mother was a Computer, Indigo+Madder, London, 2022
Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
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Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
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Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
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Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
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Nest Time, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2023
Young and Restless, The Stable Gallery S-chanf, Switzerland, 2023
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Young and Restless, The Stable Gallery S-chanf, Switzerland, 2023

Bio

Emily Kraus (b. 1995) works inside a metal cubic structure around which she stretches a raw canvas loop with no end, allowing for space to move around her body, rather than the other way around.

The mechanism itself – and the canvas loop which she manually rotates around the frame – can be interpreted as a metaphor for a cyclical universe amidst the tangible and often constrained realities of our existence. Each work requires prolonged periods of deliberation as Kraus introduces more paint to the rollers, which spreads, grows and confines itself within structured repeating patterns which allow her to build the paintings' distinctive repetitive layers. Her method is characterised by a continuous oscillation between periods of impromptu, active mark-making and moments of meditative rumination. The resulting paintings are aptly termed stochastic, meaning that they are formed of seemingly random probability distributions that can be played upon, but ultimately yield unpredictable results.

Selected Works

Nest Time 1
Stochastic 10
Stochastic 14
Stochastic 17
Nest Time 2
Stochastic 12 (Diptych)
Stochastic 15
Nest Time 3
Stochastic 13
Stochastic 16
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