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Emma McMillan finds paths to abstraction through everyday experiences with the forgotten, sampling psychology, architecture, and the natural world. Her large-scale, gem-hued oil paintings and drawings are complex reflections on the mutation of meaning, across time and space. Opposing impulses of fast gestures and slow-burning image quality govern her practice. Recent canvasses examine bugs, as a commentary on the state of human and animal affairs.

In this new body of work, Emma McMillan searches for the pulsing vitality of life through nonhuman figurative paintings. At the dawn of the 21st …