Emma is an artist from San Francisco. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 2017. Since graduating, Emma has completed a graphic design program from City College of San Francisco. She continues painting in her art studio in the Inner Richmond.

“My work investigates how shape and space operate in relation to the rectangle. I utilize interior spaces and color to examine these relationships and compositions.  I begin by drawing interior spaces and exploring their structures and shapes. Through manipulating the drawings, I emphasize unique shapes and spaces, which then only exist in the painting, thus creating new spaces. Using oil and acrylic paint, I am able to allow the shapes no interruption of texture or brushwork.  My work deals in flatness and through flatness, there is space and a pure reading of the shapes.  There are spatial relationships between the multiple shapes, the rectangle of the canvas as well as the viewer.  I hope to continue a dialogue about how shape, space and color relate to the rectangle and the experience it presents to the viewers.”