Born in Austin, Texas (b. 1979)

Emily Mae Smith

Daphne of the West, 2020

Oil on linen
© Emily Mae Smith; courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York.

Emily Mae Smith. Photo by Matteo Mobilio.

“I’ve played with symmetry for a while, and there’s a bilateral repetition on each side that is meant to invoke something conceptually through challenging perception. It’s also supposed to instigate something in the perceiver.”

—Emily Mae Smith