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Emily Sundblad
Santa Barbara, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame, sandblasted mirror
22.05 x 17.32 x 1.97
inches 56 x 44 x 5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Directo, 2025
Oil on canvas, wooden frame, seashell
14.96 x 13.19 x 1.46 inches
38 x 33.5 x 3.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Agapanthus, 2025
Oil on linen
25.47 x 18.11 x .98 inches
64.7 x 46 x 2.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Americano, 2025
Oil on canvas
21.5 x 12.99 x .91 inches
54.6 x 33 x 2.3 cm
Emily Sundblad
Ocean Road Beach, 2025
Oil on linen
10.04 x 8.07 x .59 inches
25.5 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
My Buffalo, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame
22.05 x 19.29 x 1.77 inches
56 x 49 x 4.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Anemones, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame
22.05 x 19.29 x 1.69 inches
56 x 49 x 4.3 cm
Emily Sundblad
Sun Valley, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel and wooden frame
23.23 x 17.32 x 1.77 inches
59 x 44 x 4.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Go Straight To What You Fear, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame
22.05 x 16.34 x 1.77 inches
56 x 41.5 x 4.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Lara, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame
17.91 x 14.96 x 1.77 inches
45.5 x 38 x 4.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Julie Manet, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame
22.05 x 19.29 x 1.77 inches
56 x 49 x 4.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Young Witch in Capri, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame
17.91 x 14.96 x 1.77 inches
45.5 x 38 x 4.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
My Horse, 2025
Oil on canvas, steel frame
22.05 x 16.54 x 1.77 inches
56 x 42 x 4.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
On The Tram, 2025
Oil on canvas
12.01 x 9.06 x .98 inches
30.5 x 23 x 2.5 cm
You escape into a dark bar in the afternoon in the middle of summer. Air conditioned so much that you shiver. You rest your body on a sofa or bar stool, sipping a cocktail, and the spirits change the feeling in your soul while your gaze wanders into a painting or mural, maybe a combination of a decorative landscape and storybook imagery, perhaps with sexual innuendo. A celebrity or cultural icon may be depicted. Or a deity or scene from another time. It’s a little like looking into a dream, if a dream were like a club you could walk into and order a drink, and if the club contained landscapes, seascapes.
The size of the painting or decorative panels have been determined by the size of the bar or the size of the dining room. Painting adding space to space, for you.
The paintings enhance the effect of the alcohol, food or romance and turn the interior into an escape and a dreamscape. An escape perhaps from motherhood or work or anything quotidian. An hour like this sends you home with a dream to give your life, your child, your wife, your dog. Even death needs an hour like this in a bar sometimes.
Blooming ephebes, female Satyrs, Oriental sages, owls, snakes: we will find them all, as well as Punchinello and Death, within the pages of this book, along with Venus, Time, Moses, numerous angels, Cleopatra, and Beatrice of Burgundy—a motley company always on the go.
Calasso makes clear that Tiepolo was more than a dazzling intermezzo in the history of painting. Rather, he represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: endowed with a fluid, seemingly effortless style, Tiepolo was the last incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue of sprezzatura, the art of not seeming artful.
(on the book Tiepolo Pink by Roberto Calasso, www.penguinrandomhouse.com)
Works
Emily Sundblad
April (The Shards), 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
72 x 213 inches
182.9 x 541 cm
Emily Sundblad
July, 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
72 x 192 inches
182.9 x 487.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
June (Tropic of Gemini), 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
63 x 75 inches
160 x 190.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
May (Coatlicue), 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
63 x 79 inches
160 x 200.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 2022
Oil on canvas
63 x 126 inches
160 x 320 cm
Emily Sundblad
Studio Gerty, 2023
Oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
54 x 48 inches
137.2 x 121.9 cm
Emily Sundblad
March (Raffaella, Lucretia), 2023
Oil, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
42 x 63 inches
106.7 x 160 cm
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Gaga is pleased to present El Beso, Emily Sundblad’s third show at the gallery.
The exhibition design was created through many phone conversations between the artist and the gallerists, conversations about fantasies of the home interiors of their style idols, nightclubs and other freer decades. Always a place where one would finally feel comfortable in his or her own nightgown.
Many shades of pink were tried and hundreds of velvet swatches were felt in the making of the paravent screen, which is the central armature in the exhibition. It reveals and hides the still life paintings (and one sloth) and echoes The Jungly Book a fold out watercolor book the artist made in 2015.
The decorative panels of Odilon Redon were downloaded over and over again.
The El Beso series is originally an homage to Peter Wächtler ́s vampire film Ad Astra and also a love letter to our friends, one that repeats but always changes.
As we age we feel the constant presence of death. We are trying to think of a way to kiss it. Emily Sundblad cherishes doors. Her Swedish roots in her decorative painting style flirt in The Helpless Door. It adorns the threshold to the gallerists’ home.
Marc Razo and Emily put a musical performance together for the opening of songs written by themselves and other classics.
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Works
Emily Sundblad
El beso 2, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 x .875 inches
61 x 50.8 x 2.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
El beso 3, 2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 x .875 inches
61 x 50.8 x 2.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
El beso 4 (we set the castle on fire), 2019
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 20 x .875 inches
61 x 50.8 x 2.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Yves, 2019
Oil on canvas
59.5 x 52 x 1.25 inches
151.1 x 132.1 x 3.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Medicine, 2019
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 x 1.25 inches
91.4 x 61 x 3.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Caetano, 2019
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 x 1.25 inches
91.4 x 61 x 3.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Untitled (still life), 2019
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 x 1.25 inches
91.4 x 61 x 3.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Untitled (sloth skeleton), 2019
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 x 1.25 inches
91.4 x 61 x 3.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
JG, 2019
Oil on canvas
59.5 x 51.5 x 1.25 inches
151.1 x 130.8 x 3.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Untitled, 2019
Oil on canvas
59.5 x 51.5 x 1.25 inches
151.1 x 130.8 x 3.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Helpless Door, 2019
Enamel and acrylic on woodden door
90.16 x 32.28 x 1.38 inches
229 x 82 x 3.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
El Beso 1 (finally alone in our spooky castle), 2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 x .875 inches
61 x 50.8 x 2.2 cm
Emily Sundblad, Fernando Mesta & Maestro Quiroz a la guitarra
El crucifijo de piedra
Performance 4 de Febrero 2014
Mexico City
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On Display:
15 drawings made at the Santa Barbara Zoo, mounted on pleather, leather and card.
3 illustrations made in New York. adapted loosely from Rembrandt and Delacroix.
A white wedding dress and a veil that mimics a cage and makes the dress suitable for both a wedding and a funeral made by Proenza Schouler, based on a concept by Emily Sundblad.
One belt and one set of horse’s reins.
One peep-hole into the dining room.
8 old English folk songs played in the gallery and displayed each on it’s own USB stick with hardware. The songs are adapted from early recordings by Shirley Collins and performed by Emily Sundblad and Matt Sweeney. Recorded in January 2014 by Justin Smith at Pink Duck studios in Burbank. Produced by Matt Sweeney.
1 Rib eye steak, frozen.
1 Piece of goat meat in a ziploc bag, frozen.
1 Assemblage/ visual EP consisting of a drawing titled “Lobster Dinner”, cutlery, four USB sticks with one song on each attached to various hardware, one plastic snake, a belt buckle and a glass of red wine.
The show is an attempt to explore how two antiquated institutions- the zoo and marriage- and one institution that will always be a jour- death- illustrate a feeling of imprisonment by love.
Works
Emily Sundblad
Reclamar el Hoyo, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
Mounted on pleather
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Isla de los Monos, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
Mounted on pleather
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Isla de los Monos, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
Mounted on pleather
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Isla de los Monos, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
Mounted on pleather
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Isla de los Monos, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Elefante Asiático, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
Mounted on pleather
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Elefante Asiático y Caja, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Obesidad Mórbida Hombre y Elefante Asiático, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Black is the New Orange, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
16 x 12 in
40.6 x 30.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Rugido del Leopardo de Amur, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
Mounted on pleather
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Leopardo de Amur, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper and Lace
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Dormir Leopardo de Amur, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper, Metal Clip and USB
Mounted on pleather
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Hábitat del Leopardo de Amur, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Leopardos de Amur, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper
20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Bistec con Canción, 2014
T Bone, Metal Clip and USB
4.33 x 11.02 x 1.38 inches
11 x 28 x 3.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Lejonkulan, 2014
Ink on paper
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
Emily Sundblad
Serpientes, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper 20 x 16 in
50.8 x 40.7 cm
Emily Sundblad
Do Jaguar, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper 16 x 12 in
40.6 x 30.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Cabrito, 2014
Young Goat Meat in Plastic Baggie
11.6 x 7.7 x 2 in
29.5 x 19.5 x 5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Mamacita, 2014
YSL Eyeliner on Paper 16 x 12 in
40.6 x 30.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Naturaleza Muerta Viva, 2014
Mixed Media
20 x 23 in
50.8 x 58.4 cm
Emily Sundblad
Naturaleza Muerta Viva, 2014
Oil on Linen
34 x 28 in
86.4 x 71.1 cm
Emily Sundblad
Naturaleza Muerta Viva, 2014
Oil on Linen
23 x 30 in
58.4 x 76.2 cm
Emily Sundblad
Naturaleza Muerta Viva, 2014
Oil on Linen
23 x 30 in
58.4 x 73.7 cm
“En este mundo no hay nada cierto, salvo la muerte y los impuestos.”
Benjamín Franklin
“¡Muerte, impuestos y partos! Nunca hay un momento conveniente para ninguno de ellos.”
Margaret Mitchell, Lo que el viento se llevó, 1936.
Primero la noción de persona, del latín personare, que quiere decir resonar. Era la mascara usada por los actores, luego se convirtió en el papel o el actor mismo, para luego derivar en un individuo de la raza humana. Aquel que en la vida real representa una función y que existe hasta el momento de su muerte.
Luego persona moral, del latín persona ficta como forma jurídica y mores, costumbre. O persona jurídica, una entidad no natural o física vista por la ley con el estatus de persona; un sujeto aparente que oculta a los verdaderos. Existe como consecuencia del acto jurídico de constitución y puede tener una vida que exceda la de aquellas personas que la constituyen.
Entonces la pregunta es, ¿cómo y qué declarar ya sea como persona física o como persona moral, en la dinámica de la exposición colectiva de verano? Performances pasados, retratos, cuerpos y proyectos de largo plazo, personajes ficticios y Empresas… Para aquellos que declaran y aquellos que deciden no hacerlo. Para aquellas personas morales y las que son inmorales, e incluso aquellas que no existen.
Fernando Mesta
Junio 2010 , México D.F.
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Alex Hubbard
2010
Canvas and fiber glass
123 x 116 cm
Emily Sundblad
CD/ Lista de canciones: Si me dejas te destruyo. (2010)
S/P
Pamela Rosenkranz
The most important Body of Water is Yours (2010)
Acryl on Spandex
1.78 x 2.3 cm
Songs
Is a three-part, site-specific exhibition by Emily Sundblad, taking place in three different Mexico City locations.The exhibition title is a quote from an interview with Gilbert and George about their dealer Konrad Fischer, who supposedly said this to the artists (and “this proves he was very fond of us”). Having worked as a gallerist myself for the last six years, I can fully relate to the tragic-comical drama of this statement and to the nature of the relationship between artists and art dealers that it captures. In conversations with my dealer colleagues, a mental and physical experience of being simultaneously created and destroyed by our jobs is a recurrent theme. Collaboration involves a tricky politics of togetherness where business loses its distinction from love, and where co-dependency breeds dreams of betrayal. My show is a performance and this is its title.
The composer and pianist Pete Drungle and I have put together a recital of popular songs interpreted by us especially for Mexico City. On March 10th we will attempt to play our music on a busy downtown street (location to be announced). By playing on the street I am hoping to reach an audience outside of the art world. The role that popular love songs – Rancheras – play in Mexico City life was our starting point. Crying out for love, these sex- and death-driven songs appear everywhere and cut across class as well as professional and physical boundaries. As a singer, I can be a woman, a man, a hysteric, sovreign, a mess and a messenger. There will also be music in the gallery on opening night.
Showing my paintings at the restaurant Contramar is a wink to Martin Kippenberger. Unlike him, I am not a full-time painter, perhaps more of a Sunday painter, a pleasure painter. Here, my paintings are on the run from the gallery, just as I am on the run from my job as a gallerist. But we don’t run very far; the restaurant is next door to GaGa. The paintings were made especially for Contramar, which plays a pivotal role in Mexico City’s cultural and social life. (Gabriela Camara, who owns Contramar is the best friend, landlord, neighbor and patron of my gallerist Fernando Mesta).
Restaurants like it are places where careers and lives can be made and unmade during the course of a meal.
Picabia’s painting Woman in blue scarf, 1942, is on consignment to GaGa from Michael Werner Gallery in New York. It is being exhibited in the gallery via an i-chat live feed from New York City.
The potential sale of this painting generates 10% of it’s full value for GaGa. Projected here, the Picabia becomes a 6 week long movie/ telephone call. It is a hustle as artwork.
hustle verb (PERSUADE)
/ˈhʌs.l/
[I or T] mainly US informal to try to persuade someone, especially to buy something, often illegally
to hustle for business/customers
They made a living hustling stolen goods on the streets.
Thanks to Pete Drungle, Fernando Mesta, Gabriela Cámara, John Kelsey, Margaret Lee, Jared Madere, Britt Marie Sundblad and Amy Greenspon, José Rojas
Emily Sundblad, March 2010 Mexico City
RIP- Alexander McQueen
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Emily Sundblad
Paintings in contramar
From March 11 to April 30
Fotos: Diego Berruecos
Emily Sundblad
Self Portrait, 2010
Oil/ canvas
68.11 x 28.74 in/173 x 73 cm
Emily Sundblad
The piano teacher, 2010
Oil/ canvas
25 x 21.06 in/ 63.5 x 53.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Contramar 1, 2010
Oil/ canvas
21.06 x 25.19 in /53.5 x 64 cm
Emily Sundblad
Lee McQueen’s wake, 2010
Oil/ canvas
40.15 x 29.92 in /102 x 76 cm
Emily Sundblad
Contramar 2, 2010
Oil/ canvas
25 x 21.06 in /63.5 x 53.5 cm
Emily Sundblad
Have you been diagnosed with HIV? Do you have diarrea? Are you at least 18 years old?, 2010
Oil/ canvas
21.65 x 21.65 in /55 x 55 cm
Emily Sundblad
La llamada / The call, 2010
Live chat from March 11 to April 30
Projected is Francis Picabia, Woman in the blue scarf
Oil on board
18 1/4 x 14 3/4 in / 46.6 x 37.2 cm
On consignment to GAGA via Reena Spaulings from Michael Werner