All’s Fair

A solo exhibition of work by Emma Hapner, 2/13/25 - 3/30/25

Warnes Contemporary is pleased to present All’s Fair, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Emma Hapner. Hapner’s bold monochromatic pieces interrogate notions of femininity and power, incorporating classical and contemporary imagery to explore and complicate our relationship to womanhood. Blending the mythological and modern, she creates images that engage with and subvert historical tropes. Hapner uses traditional methods and references—she works primarily with oil paint and riffs on a host of historical forms, including medieval tapestries, Georgian lovers’ eyes, and Renaissance triptychs and icons—to make decidedly novel work. Her figures are realistically rendered in impossible hues, a hot-pink palette that both embraces and defamiliarizes stereotypical femininity. Using shades of quinacridone red, magenta, and fluorescent rose, she creates images that are playful, sensual, and thrumming with internal power. 

Emma Hapner received an M.F.A. with a concentration in painting from the New York Academy of Art. She has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows, including at The Untitled Space, Village One Gallery, and Anderson Contemporary. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Booooooom, Friend of the Artist, and New Visionary Magazine. She lives and works in New York City.