Emily Coan: Spider Silk

A New Way of Looking at the Nude The artists redefining portraits of the human body for a more inclusive age. By Julia Halperin...

Painter Emily Coan on Fairytales, Femininity and Tradwife Tiktok By Emily Sandstrom March 21, 2024 Read on Interview Painter Emily Coan has quite an elaborate...

Exploring themes of "femininity, shame, & women’s labor set in fairytale-esque environments", American artist Emily Coan caught our eye with her playful depictions of the female form. Alluring and euphoric, Coan's figurative oil paintings are tantalisingly magical, her subjects often adorning a thin veil, perhaps symbolising the fragile layer that separates the physical and spiritual realm that is sometimes glimpsed in the primitive elation of sexuality.