Bagley expresses her singular artistic vision in a multitude of ways; with practices spanning drawing, painting, tattooing, and sculpture. Across all these practices, Bagley expresses a cohesive psychedelic vision of a world yet to come. Her distinct style is graphic and bold in nature - chromatic, hyper-pigmented colors render scenes of surreal patterns and phantasmagoric creatures in a playful light. 

A Woman Crawls Forward presents 24 paintings and 40 masks. The work in this show emerges from an obsession with cycles of death and rebirth, and the integration of this spiritual process in art and life. There is a duality to Bagley’s work: her technicolor paintings convey visions that are simultaneously cheerful and foreboding. Inspired by high fantasy and the unconscious, Bagley is iterating a new world through her work - one that holds space for the grotesque and the dreamy in equal measure. 

As if pulled from a storybook of an otherworldly tomorrow; curved legs dance around graphic scenes of lapping waters and winged creatures. Shrouded figures stand guard over a doubling sun and a woman peeks out from a hallucinatory shrine. A series of latex masks accompany the paintings in the show, their wild faces becoming alien totems of Bagley’s trance-like world.

Emma Bagley (b. 1988) has been making art as a way of understanding and alchemizing the world around her since childhood. A self trained artist, Bagley has presented work in group and solo shows in New Mexico, Portland and Los Angeles. Bagley lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.