Farmville, VA
www.emmasteinkraus.com / @emmasteinkraus
I combine paintings with wallpapers to distill complex research into a cohesive visual space, shifting the stories we tell about women, art history,, explores the lives of historical women artist-naturalists through paintings and wallpaper constructed out of their illustrations. Each painting combines detailed portraiture with photo transfers that form patterns on the women’s clothing. The transfers grapple with the complexity of the individual lives of historical women artists, inventorying the nuanced ways they abetted and resisted patriarchal constraints, environmental exploitation, and colonialism.
