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Emma Wade

EMMA WADE
For My Beloved
For Your Beloved
For Their Beloved
Mixed media
46" x 63" each
$575 each

Email museum@westmont.edu for purchasing inquiries

My portraits support a deep sense of intimacy and individuality, while conceptually depicting the divine nature of holy love. I invite the viewer into a place where defenses melt away, and love is felt for what it is: patient, kind, not envious, boastful, or proud, never rude, self-seeking, or easily angered, and [always] divinely and radically inclusive. In my use of texture, contrast, and line, these paintings investigate what it means to include lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, and queer (LGBT+) individuals into the body of Christ. Presenting itself as an example of the diversity and vastness of holy love in God’s creation, my work is hung with boldness and bravery, profoundly mindful of the institution in which it is presented. As large-scale, abstract portraits, each tapestry-like piece creates unique, free-flowing imagery that gives my subjects power and agency in proudly claiming their representation and inclusion.
 
For me, these pieces function as a manifesto. They proclaim, I am enough, my love is enough.

-Emma Wade
 

For My Beloved
Mixed media
46" x 63"
$575

For Your Beloved
Mixed media
46" x 63"
$575

For Their Beloved
Mixed media
46" x 63"
$575

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