Spring 2024
Exciting Announcements for the 2024 Season of Art Exhibitions at Nemeth Art Center!
The Nemeth Art Center is thrilled to unveil our much-anticipated lineup for the 2024 season. With an invigorating range of new and established artists, thought-provoking themes, and captivating techniques, we are committed to delivering an extraordinary artistic experience for our visitors.
Mark your calendars, invite your friends, and embark on an artistic adventure with us in the upcoming year. We look forward to welcoming you to Nemeth Art Center, a world-class place for all to experience. Free and open to the public.
Please note that exhibition dates are subject to change. Keep an eye on our website and social media channels for the latest updates and further details.
E.V. Day
May 2 – July 6, 2024.
Artist reception: Saturday, June 22, 4 - 6PM
Emma K. Beatrez (b. 1995, MN ) is an artist based out of Minneapolis, MN and represented by Hair+Nails Gallery. They received their BFA from North Dakota State University in 2018, and an MFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020. Beatrez co-runs Night Club gallery in St. Paul, MN.
Drawing on a range of influences including psychoanalysis, contemporary fashion, and human belief systems, my work, which encompasses sculpture, figurative and abstract painting, and installation, involves ritual, the recontextualization of materials, archive, surface, and aspects of 'the body'. My recent paintings and multimedia installations explore core psychoanalytic notions of the symbolic, and the real, and the emergence of new meanings through distortion of established iconography.
Artist Statement
This work is rooted in a dynamic of desire to over consume while being force fed. Images flicker between personal and public open source, taking shape in a constant state of “what happens when the next five links are removed?” Like telephone, everything comes full circle in the end, altered through the degradation of transference. I’m interested in cropping, digging, blurring, redaction, cult fantasy, assimilation, voyeurism, innocence, recontextualization, memory/memory purgatory, framing, and montage.
