Emily Ludwig Shaffer (b. 1988, San Francisco, CA) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her works are usually tightly rendered paintings of uncanny and intimate architectural spaces and gardens. In the worlds she creates, day and night sometimes exist at the same time, space falters from isometric to perspectival, and the only figures who appear are stone statues of solid women. Shaffer, whose late mother was an architect, considers these compositions homages to the spaces women build and create and as personal explorations of space, light, and color.
Her work has been presented internationally in solo shows at Peres Projects (forthcoming, Berlin, Germany), Galerie Pact (Paris, France), Institute 193 (Lexington, KY), and Dio Horia (Mykonos, Greece), as well as numerous group shows including at Jeffrey Deitch (New York, NY), Venus Over Manhattan (New York, NY), Matthew Brown (Los Angeles, CA), Reyes Finn (Detroit, MI), Helena Anrather (New York, NY), Mrs. Gallery (Maspeth, NY), Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, CA), L’Inconnue (Montréal, Canada), Unclebrother (Hancock, NY), The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), and Ellis King (Dublin, Ireland).
Emily Ludwig Shaffer