Emma Webster, Painter Who Sees in VR, Joins Perrotin
The artist, who sculpts digital landscapes before painting them on canvas, has been showing with Perrotin since mid-2022.
Emma Webster, Aloethylene (2022). Oil on linen. 213.36 x 304.8 cm. Courtesy the artist and Perrotin.
Paris-based gallery Perrotin today announced its official representation of California-born painter Emma Webster in France and across its locations in Asia.
Webster's verdant, supernatural landscapes are expressively painted based on three-dimensional dioramas or 'mini-sets' created by the artist, which are often augmented with backdrops collaged from canonical landscape paintings.
The artist has sculpted her maquettes of imaginary worlds in Virtual Reality since 2020, after former Stanford classmate and VR artist Wyatt Roy introduced her to the technology.
Webster has worked with Perrotin since 2022, when her solo show Illuminarium (27 August–1 October 2022) launched the gallery's new location in Gangnam, Seoul.
She also collaborated with Perrotin on a second solo show, The Dolmens (2023), in Tokyo, and the presentation of a monumental painting, Echo of an Act Left (2022), at Paris+ par Art Basel in 2022.
'After two awesome shows I'm happy to join the fam', said Webster in an Instagram post.
Webster will make a special presentation with Perrotin during Art Basel Miami Beach in December. —[O]
