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Emma McIntyre

Jupiter and Io, 2025

Five-plate etching with soft ground, spit bite, and sugar lift on Rives BFK paper
19 x 24 inches (48.3 x 61 cm)
Edition of 25, 4 AP
Signed, dated, and numbered recto

Printed by Farrington Press
Published by Utopia Editions

If not, winter 2024
Published by Utopia Editions

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Emma McIntyre (b. 1990) creates vivid abstractions imbued with chromatic and gestural energy. Instinctual yet deeply considered, her canvases explore painting’s material and alchemical possibilities. Employing oils and unconventional substances, she pairs chance-based, intuitive processes with a repertoire of motifs and compositional strategies gleaned from a close study of art history—reformulating these divergent threads into a fresh and unbridled mode of painting that is uniquely her own.

McIntyre was born in Auckland, New Zealand. After graduating from Auckland University of Technology in 2011, she received an MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2016 and a second MFA from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 2021. In 2019 she received a Fulbright Graduate Award. McIntyre is a founding board member of the co-operative gallery Coastal Signs, Auckland.

McIntyre lives and works in Los Angeles.

photo by Daniel Dorsa