Booth 275
For EXPO Chicago 2023, Rebecca Camacho Presents presented a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn based painter Emily Furr. Engaging themes of industrialism, transformation, and the cosmic void, Furr’s work speaks to the fragility of human exploits in the face of the vastness of the universe.
A continuation of the artists inquiry into human attempts to control the uncontrollable, Furr’s EXPO presentation wass conceived as a cohesive series of paintings; expertly layered galaxies and geometric structures, blanketing industrial connotations of masculine force, power and progress over a vibrant, fluid cosmos. Sexually and recreationally suggestive, the inherent tensions in Furr’s binary oppositions fuse paintings and politics. By manipulating the dichotomies of eroticism, played out in the balance between the hard and the soft, the phallic and the yonic, the solar and the lunar, Furr charges her objects with a sensual, bodiless power, both forms and the void that surrounds them become anthropomorphic depictions of human relations.
