Emma Beatrez

Exceptional paintings from Minneapolis-based Emma Beatrez, an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Influenced by Midwestern folklore, occult traditions, and the symbolic rituals embedded (often unknowingly) in everyday life, Beatrez transforms ordinary imagery into psychologically charged and haunting visual stories.

Their oil paintings explore perception, memory, and the instability of meaning, drawing on psychoanalytic ideas while distorting familiar symbols into evocative new forms. Personal experiences merge with shared cultural imagery, creating compositions that feel at once intimate and universal, recognizable yet elusive, charged with otherworldly phantoms.

Through these subtle shifts in context and symbolism, Beatrez invites viewers to reconsider the hidden and supernatural forces that shape identity, belief, and collective memory.

A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and North Dakota State University, Beatrez is also co-founder and curator of Night Club gallery in St. Paul, contributing significantly to Minnesota's contemporary art community.