Hot City, Cool Waters Art Print

Hot City, Cool Waters Art Print - By Emily Cowan

This location was the rooftop pool of a fancy hotel in Los Angeles.  While not a residence and thus a departure from my usual subject matter, I painted this piece to reflect on what felt like the overwhelming opulence of that city.  To be in this cool wet beautiful place hundreds of feet above an urban desert full of class divides and struggling workers was dizzying and made me reflect on my own privileges.

More About the Artist:

Emily Cowan is a self-taught painter working primarily in acrylic gouache. Her work centers on houses, apartments, and domestic interiors, using architectural forms and meticulous detail work to explore themes of personal narrative, feminism, and the emotional weight and global injustice of the housing crisis. Rooted in personal longing and social critique, her paintings are both homage and protest—depicting homes she admires but will never be able to own.  Every building she paints is a real building somewhere, based on her own photography.  After years exploring illustration, comics, photography and collage, she began painting in 2021 and has since exhibited in galleries and artist-run spaces across Vancouver and the BC Lower Mainland.

Artist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilycowanart/

FRAMING OPTIONS

• 5x7" - 8x10" Frame matted to 5x7"
• 8x10"
• 11x14"

PAPER & DESCRIPTION
* Printed on high quality 100lb matte white paper
* Resistant to scratches and fingerprints

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