Giant Skeleton: Emma Rose Schwartz
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler is pleased to announce Giant Skeleton, Emma Rose Schwartz’s first exhibition with the gallery.
EMMA ROSE SCHWARTZ
Giant Skeleton
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (DE)
28.02.2026–10.04.2026
Opening: Friday, 27.02.2026, 5–8 pm
Giant Skeleton takes its name from what has become a minor monument in American folk culture: a 12 foot tall skeleton sold by Home Depot, popularly named “Skelly.” Produced as a seasonal decoration yet too large to be conveniently stored, it has, in many places, become a semi-permanent fixture in yards, lingering long after the holiday it was meant to signify. The exhibition unfolds in the atmosphere of late autumn, at the end of the growing season, when light recedes and the year’s decorations remain in place like after-images.
EMMA ROSE SCHWARTZ (b. 1992, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014) and an MFA from Columbia University (2019). Through a process of layering, erasing, and carving into un-stretched canvas, Schwartz builds paintings that hold both image and sediment, where the surface becomes a record of touch and revision. Her compositions often unfold in folkloric or suburban settings, drawn from memory, myth, and the architecture of her Nashville upbringing, where figures appear as recurring archetypes of the self. Her work examines how identity, inheritance, and fiction coalesce in the act of depiction.
Relevant exhibitions include Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2026, forthcoming); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2026, solo); Derosia, New York (2025, solo); Brunette Coleman, London (2024, solo); In Lieu, Los Angeles (2023, solo); Annarumma Gallery, Naples (2022, solo); Chapter, New York (2021, solo); Margot Samel, New York (2024); Hesse Flatow, New York (2024); Paulina Caspari, Munich (2024); Thierry Goldberg, New York (2023); Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2022); and In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022). She received the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Venice Award (2019) and was artist in residence at Xenia Creative Retreat (2025).
