Emma Kohlmann for Interview Magazine

"A lot of people like to categorize my art as hopeful. It’s funny, back in college, a lot of my work was very heavy, creepy, or almost like scary stories to tell in the dark.It was a choice I made when I started branching out and using color, and trying to make the interiors of the space that these figures exist in. It was a big departure from that darker part of me. But I think it’s maybe wrapped up in everything I make, too, because you almost have to have both to me. I think about how there’s something emotive on the edge of having both at the same time" Emma Kohlmann says to Maggie Roggers from Interview Magazine

Read the full article "Emma Kohlmann Tells Maggie Rogers Why She’ll Never Take Her Art Too Seriously" here.

Portrait of Emma Kohlmann by Annabell P. Lee.