Emily Kraus’s oil paintings tower over visitors to Luhring Augustine’s Tribeca space, their repeated patterns alternately boldly colored and faded, like a stutter that periodically bursts into explosive expression. The London-based American artist calls this group of abstract paintings her ‘Stochastic Series,’ after their unpredictable patterns and emphasizes the paintings’ relation to her own body. Assigned a small studio with bad lighting while pursuing her MFA a few years ago, Kraus innovated by wrapping the walls in 360 degrees of canvas and later painting from within a cube structure which she rotates as she works. Titled ‘Anemoi’ after the winds from Greek mythology, this painting suggests an opening through which twisting gusts might pass. (On view in Tribeca through June 13th).
