Drawing on influences including the occult, her midwestern upbringing, and the hidden and overt symbolism and rituals inherent in our everyday lives, Emma Beatrez’s work encompasses sculpture, painting, video and installation. In her oil paintings, Beatrez harnesses magic from the commonplace with a keen eye for the subtleties of gaze. Her recent paintings explore core psychoanalytic notions of the symbolic and the real as well as the emergence of new meanings through distortion and recontextualization of established iconography. Images flicker between personal and public open source, taking shape in a constant state of flux. Like a game of telephone, everything comes full circle in the end, altered through the degradation of transference.