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Emily Mae Smith is an American born artist from Austin, TX. Focused on the medium of painting, her works tend to comment on the serious issues of gender, capitalism, and violence juxtaposed by her employment of a lighthearted and cheerful aesthetic influenced by Disney and Warhol’s screen prints. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Bio

Emily Mae Smith was born in the Texas countryside near Austin in 1979. In 1997 she moved to the city to go to the University of Texas which she graduated from in 2002 with a BFA in Studio Art. In 2004 Smith moved to New York where, after two years, she got her MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Since the beginning of her schooling Smith has worked in many galleries in addition to teaching some painting and drawing classes at Columbia University as well as one semester at Vanderbilt University. She has been exhibiting work for years and in 2010 her shows went international when she held an exhibition in Portugal. In 2014 she became fascinated with Disney’s Fantasia and has based many a lot of her pop art inspired paintings on the images that captivated her attention. In addition to her painting she supports many feminist organizations and youth outreach programs.

Context

Although her work is very pristine and tends to look digitally rendered, all of Smith’s work is hand painted, leaving very few, if any, brushstrokes.