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Born in 1996 in Baltimore Maryland, American painter Emma Childs graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in General Fine Arts. In this current body of work, Childs, a Baltimore native, has been developing a language of painting that allows her to explore the way we exist in the world we build around us. Childs’ work explores moments of chaos and mundanity, freedom and containment, isolation and contact. She is interested in the ability of a work to evoke an energetically emotional response from the viewer as well as creating objects that physically interact with their environment, to walk a line between creating something self-contained as well as reaching outward.
While creating efficiently eloquent shapes, choices of color and application are integral steps within Childs’ process. Transforming experiences and emotions into a language of simplified form, color, edge, and paint applications has allowed her to simplify what are actually complicated interconnected metaphors about relationships and the world we build around us.
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