Emily LaCour
Emily LaCour (b. 1990) is an American Artist tenaciously dedicated to painting. Through the fluidity of her painted relationships and dreamlike environments, she communicates the felt dynamics of relationships that transcend particular spaces. Influenced by her own relationships as part of a family unit and a new mother, she transcribes her personal and observed experiences into paralleling narratives. The image transforms as she works. Figures are often painted in and out, and the narrative shifts like a lucid dream. Her dissolution and search of boundaries between figures and the figure to their environment comes by a physical process of pushing, pulling, drawing, and carving into oil. As recently described, "She turns bodies toward one another, and makes complex environments around them, a pioneering achievement that we should learn from."-Vernon
The painted relationships are communicated with a realistic figuration as she had an old masters, observational based training in adolescence from teachers and her grandmother, a Louisiana landscape painter. She studied at the New York Studio School and holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University and a BFA from Louisiana State University, where she later taught. Her work is collected internationally and shown in museums, art fairs, and notable galleries across America. In 2023 she had her first museum acquisition by the Grace Museum in Texas. She is represented by Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas where she resides.