Emily Ludwig Shaffer (born 1988 in San Francisco, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 and a MFA from Columbia University in 2017. Solo exhibitions have been featured at Galerie PACT (Paris, France, 2018, 2020) and Institute 193 (Lexington, KY, USA 2019). She also participated in numerous group shows such as Jeffrey Deitch gallery curated by Austin Lee (New-York, NY), Future Gallery and Peres Projects (Berlin, Germany) in 2020, Matthew Brown (Los Angeles), Mrs. Gallery (New-York, NY), Helena Anrather (New-York, NY) and L’Inconnue (Montréal, Canada) in 2019, Unclebrother curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija (Hancock, NY), The Jewish Museum (New York, NY) in 2017, Ellis King (Dublin, IE) in 2016 and 2017 etc. Shaffer’s paintings and drawings explore the uncanny worlds that arise between idealized forms and environments and the frames through which we experience them. In the worlds she creates, day and night sometimes exist at the same time, perspective falters and the only figures who appear are stone statues of solid women. Shaffer sees these imaginary domestic spaces and gardens as theoretical explorations of architecture, light, time, control and color, and as homages to the spaces women build, create and occupy.