Emma McIntyre
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Emma McIntyre
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Emma McIntyre’s paintings form aesthetically exploratory mental views through gestural compilation, wherein the desirous occupations of the mind and the residues of memory causally interact with physical states. Unfastened from representation yet still of-the-world, McIntyre plays in the pictorial slack between abstraction and the viewer’s invariable lurch towards points of recognition.
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Among my swan
2025
Installation view
David Zwirner, Hong Kong
Tiepolo pink
2025
Oil and conte crayon on linen
98 x 75 inches 248.9 x 190.5 cm
Tiepolo pink
2025
Detail
Alchemists
2024
Installation view
Pond Society, Shanghai
Calypso
2024
Oil and iron oxide on linen
85.8 x 62.9 in / 218.4 x 160 cm
Calypso
2024
Detail
Objects or vapour
2024
Oil on linen
22 x 25 in / 55.9 x 63.5 cm
Objects or vapour
2024
Detail
Objects or Vapours
2024
Installation view
Coastal Signs, Auckland
Demi - paradise
2024.
Oil on linen
102 x 152 inches / 259.1 x 386.1 cm
Demi - paradise
2024
Detail
Objects or Vapours
2024
Installation view
Coastal Signs, Auckland
Aqua seafoam shame
2024
Oil on linen
16 x 18 inches / 40.7 x 45.7 cm
Aqua seafoam shame
2024
Detail
An echo, a stain
2023
Installation view
David Zwirner, New York
Doth mutation love
2023
Oil on linen
80 x 98 in / 203.2 x 248.9 cm
Doth mutation love
2023
Detail
An echo, a stain
2023
Installation view
David Zwirner, New York
Some pure word
2023
Oil on linen
18 x 20 in / 45.7 x 50.8 cm
An echo, a stain
2023
Installation view
David Zwirner, New York
Under stainless skies
2023
Oil on linen
12 x 16 in / 30.5 x 40.6 cm
L’Almanach 23
2023
Installation view
Le Consortium, Dijon
Direct smear atlas
2022
Oil on linen
80 x 98 in / 203.2 x 248.9 cm
Direct smear atlas
2022
Detail
Pearl Diver
2023
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
We will invent new roses
2023
Oil and oil stick on linen
In two parts: 98 x 140 in / 248.9 x 355.6 cm (overall)
We will invent new roses
2023
Detail
Pearl Diver
2023
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Monograph of a stain
2022
Oil, acrylic and indian ink on linen
98.5 x 78 in / 250.2 x 198.1 cm
Monograph of a stain
2022
Detail
Pearl Diver
2023
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Darling wrecks
2022
Oil on linen
14 x 15.9 in / 35.6 x 40.4 cm
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
2022
Oil and iron oxide on linen
72 x 64 in / 182.8 x 162.6 cm
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
2022
Oil and iron oxide on linen
72 x 64 in / 182.8 x 162.6 cm
Oceans of Time
2022
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Rain bright madness
2022
Oil on linen
94 x 78 in / 238 x 198 cm
Rain bright madness
2022
Detail
Frieze New York
2022
Installation view
Frieze New York, New York
The blush
2022
Oil and iron oxide on linen
12 x 14 in / 30.5 x 35.6 cm
Red-fingered moon
2022
Oil and oil stick on linen
66 x 78 in / 167.6 x 198.1 cm
Red-fingered moon
2022
Detail
Madonna of the Pomegranate
2022
Installation view
Coastal Signs, Auckland
River red
2022
Oil and oil stick on linen
78 x 94 in / 198 x 240 cm
Papillotage
2021
Oil and oil stick on linen
84 x 72 in / 213.4 x 182.8 cm
Papillotage
2021
Detail
Up bubbles her amorous breath
2022
Installation view
Air de Paris, Paris
Sweetbitter
2021
Oil and oil stick on linen
72 x 84 in / 183 x 213 cm
Sweetbitter
2021
Detail
Up bubbles her amorous breath
2022
Installation view
Air de Paris, Paris
Arcadia
2021
Oil and oil stick on linen
18 x 20 in / 45.5 x 51 cm
Pinkisms
2021
Installation view
Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena
Badlands
2021
Oil and oil stick on linen
78 x 94 in / 198.1 x 238.7 cm
Badlands
2021
Detail
The perverse and unwholesome purple of certain roses
2021
Oil and oil stick on linen
11 x 12 in / 27.9 x 30.4 cm
Cythera II
2021
Oil and oil stick on linen
64 x 144 in / 162.6 x 365.7 cm
Cythera II
2021
Detail
Ensemble
2021
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Cythera
2021
Oil, oil stick and acrylic on linen
16 x 18 in / 40.6 x 45.7 cm
If there is light that has weight
2021
Oil and oil stick on linen
72 x 64 in / 182.9 x 162.6 cm
The problem of vivacity
2020
Oil, oil stick and acrylic on linen
56 x 64 in / 142.2 x 162.56 cm
Heat
2020
Installation view
Mossman Gallery, Wellington
Heat
2020
Installation view
Mossman Gallery, Wellington
Handbody
2020
Oil and acrylic on linen
56 x 64 in / 142.2 x 162.5 cm
Handbody
2020
Detail
The Blue of It
2019
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (offsite)
I.
2019
Oil and flashe on linen
70.8 x 94.5 in / 180 x 240 cm
I.
2019
Detail
Rose on Red
2018
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, New Zealand
Grid (veils)
2018
Oil, flashe and mesh on linen
63 x 86.6 in / 160 x 220 cm
Grid (veils)
2018
Detail
Rose on Red
2018
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, New Zealand
Grid (mesh pinks)
2018
Oil, flashe and meshe on linen
23.6 x 29.5 in / 60 x 75 cm
Pink Square Sways
2017
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
Pink Square Sways
2017
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
Grid (yellow dot)
Oil and flashe on linen
63 x 86.6 in / 160 x 220 cm
Pink Square Sways
2017
Installation view
Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
Grid (black dots)
2017
Oil, spray paint and acrylic on linen
63 x 86.6 in / 160 x 220 cm
Grid (black dots)
2017
Detail
Grid (green)
2017
Oil and flashe on linen
19.6 x 15.7 in / 50 x 40 cm
Grid (lipstick)
2017
Oil, oil stick and flashe on linen
19.6 x 15.7 in / 50 x 40 cm