The Window Project - Emma Childs

Have it All, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 96 inches

The Commonality, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
62 x 70 inches

Press Release

The Exhibition

Emma Childs (b. 1996) is an American painter exploring color abstraction as a way of transforming intangible experiences and emotions into a language of layered acrylic paintings, often on shaped canvas. Childs’ work distills the complexities of human connection and emotional states using a minimalist presenting language of simplified form, color, and shape. Color is built up in layers on the canvas, with choices in color and application dancing between the intuitive and calculated. These shaped canvases are simultaneously images and sculptural objects, serving as containers built to give physical presence and structure to the intangible. Childs’ paintings offer layered depictions of the worlds we build around ourselves.

The Artist

Childs is based in Baltimore, MD and holds a BFA in General Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections across the United States as well as the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Canada. Her work has been featured in publications including New American Paintings, British Vogue, UK House and Garden, Artmaze Mag, DC Modern Luxury, Create!Mag, and Dwell Magazine.

Website: www.emmachildsart.com 
Instagram: @emmechilds