American Art History Digitallysponsored by the Terra Foundation for American ArtImpossible Garden: A Contemporary Artist’s Digital Engagement with Women Artist-Naturalists of the Long Nineteenth Century and BeyondInteractive Feature
by Emma Steinkraus, with Carey Gibbons and Allan McLeod
Emma Steinkraus is a visual artist and assistant professor of fine art at Hampden-Sydney College. Her paintings and installations use strategies of juxtaposition and layering to explore ecology, gender, and the history of science. Her current project, Impossible Garden, highlights the contributions of women artist-naturalists through an immersive wallpaper collaged from reproductions of their work. Steinkraus’s work has been exhibited recently at galleries including 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Deanna Evans Project (Brooklyn, NY), Poker Flats (Williamstown, MA), and Field Projects (New York, NY). She has been awarded artist residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Wassaic Project, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she is a Helen Frankenthaler Fellow. In 2020, she was an Eliza Moore Fellow for Artistic Excellence at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Her work can be found on her website or on Instagram at @emmasteinkraus.
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Allan McLeod, Website Developer, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Citation: Emma Steinkraus, with Carey Gibbons and Allan McLeod, “Impossible Garden: A Contemporary Artist’s Digital Engagement with Women Artist-Naturalists of the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 20, no. 3 (Autumn 2021), https://doi.org/10.29411/ncaw.2021.20.3.29.
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