Stage Fright
Stage Fright
Stage Fright

Em Kettner

Stage Fright, 202418 x 26.5 x 2.5cmSign in to view price
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glazed porcelain tile embedded in oil-sealed mahogany artist frameFrançois Ghebaly
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This minimalist contemporary artwork features a wooden panel with a small, rectangular inset in the center. The warm, natural tones of the wood, with its distinct grain pattern, serve as the predominant visual elements, creating a sleek and understated composition. Within the central inset, a delicate, ethereal figure is depicted in a monochromatic palette, suggesting a symbolic or metaphorical subject matter. The artist's choice of using a recessed frame and simple, geometric forms reflects a modernist approach, emphasizing the interplay between positive and negative space. The overall impression is one of contemplative simplicity, inviting the viewer to engage with the artwork's subtle complexities and the interplay between material, form, and abstraction. ...

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Artist
Em Kettner
B.1988, American

Em Kettner’s miniature, figurative sculptures are contextualised by the artist’s experience of muscular dystrophy, intimacy and the fragility of embodied interdependence. She weaves silk and cotton threads onto fragmented porcelain structures, creating tiny beds and colourfully-patterned surfaces, leaving out the limbs and heads of her tiny characters. Whether sickbeds or love-beds or both, the sculptures and their figures reference the physical fragility and mutual support of Kettner’s experience. The miniature scale of her works alludes to votative objects placed on altars as pleas for the relief of pain or illness. Eroticism, religion, joy and ecstasy intertwine in the artist’s delicate figures, challenging the idea of a “normal” body and the hurtful stereotypes about the disability community. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Em Kettner: Artworks
The Swingers
Em KettnerThe Swingers, 2021
7.62 x 20.32 x 13.97cm
The Long Night
Em KettnerThe Long Night, 2021
8.89 x 7.62 x 7.62cm
The Lemon Drop Dream
The Cross
Em KettnerThe Cross, 2021
25.4 x 24.13 x 8.89cm
The Divining Rod
Em KettnerThe Divining Rod, 2021
24.13 x 6.35 x 3.81cm
The Blue Mother
Em KettnerThe Blue Mother, 2021
7.62 x 16.51 x 11.43cm
The Sycophant
Em KettnerThe Sycophant, 2019
8.89 x 26.67 x 13.97cm
The Supplicant
Em KettnerThe Supplicant, 2020
7.62 x 30.48 x 7.62cm
The Orchard
Em KettnerThe Orchard, 2020
15.24 x 10.16 x 2.54cm
The Mirror
Em KettnerThe Mirror, 2020
22.86 x 10.16 x 2.54cm
The Supplicant
Em KettnerThe Supplicant, 2020
10.16 x 20.32 x 7.62cm
The Mending Bed
Em KettnerThe Mending Bed, 2020
10.16 x 15.24 x 15.24cm
The Lovers’ Quarrel
The Invalid
Em KettnerThe Invalid, 2020
10.16 x 10.16 x 5.08cm
The Prairie Sickbed
Em KettnerThe Prairie Sickbed, 2020
12.7 x 10.16 x 7.62cm
St. Francis and the Flies
The Pilgrim
Em KettnerThe Pilgrim, 2020
5.08 x 20.32 x 2.54cm
The Invalids
Em KettnerThe Invalids, 2020
7.62 x 20.32 x 7.62cm
Settle
Opening Act
The Bridge
Stage Fright
Em KettnerStage Fright, 2024
18 x 26.5 x 2.5cm
Fever Dream
Em KettnerFever Dream, 2023
13.5 x 12.5 x 2.5cm
The Hereafter
Em KettnerThe Hereafter, 2023
25.5 x 12.5 x 2.5cm
Night Bloomers
The Gardener
Em KettnerThe Gardener, 2025
27.9 x 38.1 x 2.5cm
The Burlesque Patient
François Ghebaly
Gallery
François Ghebaly
Los Angeles, New York City

Since 2009, François Ghebaly has presented an innovative, eclectic program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. With a history of identifying and championing diverse voices and emerging talent, the gallery’s roster has grown to include 27 artists and 2 artist estates, ranging from early career, such as Sharif Farrag and Ludovic Nkoth, to mid-career, like Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Kelly Akashi, Farah Al Qasimi, and Genesis Belanger, to well established, including Sayre Gomez, Kathleen Ryan, Neïl Beloufa and Candice Lin as well as underground legends, like Patrick Jackson and Mike Kuchar. The gallery advances the reach of its artists’ visions by publishing exhibition catalogues and producing artist editions. Located since 2013 in a 12,000 square foot warehouse space in Downtown Los Angeles, the gallery is a mainstay of the burgeoning Arts District community, and recently expanded to New York's Lower East Side. François Ghebaly’s program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and to fostering the progressive, boundary-pushing practices of its artists. ...

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