Description

Emma Kalff’s work is a distillation of her everyday life after memory, emotion and dreams have had their way with it. Her paintings are a genuine exploration of the beauty and despair of our inner worlds. She paints aspects of ordinary life as a way of giving voice to the hidden world of meaning all around us.

Kalff was classically trained in oil painting under American realist painter Auseklis Ozols at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been selected as part of Southwest Art magazine’s “21 Under 31: Young Artists to Collect Now”, and has been shown in American Art Collector magazine, Aesthetica magazine, and Studio Visit magazine. In 2023 she was listed as an Artist to Watch by Plein Air Magazine. Kalff’s paintings are in both private and public collections, and have been shown at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art.