At its core, I’m Your Venus is a study in complexity—how ideals are constructed, passed down, and altered. Adams brings these ideals into conversation with current technology, revealing both the possibilities and limitations of AI as it intersects with artistic tradition. The result is a collection that is both timeless and timely, meditating on how cultural values are encoded into bodies across time and how we might continue to question and reshape those ideals moving forward.
Emily Davis Adams (B. San Francisco, CA) is an artist currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Adams attended UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and UC Berkeley where she studied in both the Department of Art Practice and the College of Natural Resources. She received a BS from UC Berkeley in the interdisciplinary major, society and environment, and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in New York City, where she was also awarded the 2011 Postgraduate Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed in several publications including the Los Angeles Times and Artillery Magazine. She has taught at Queens College in New York City, Sonoma State University and Stanford University, among others.
Adams has had numerous solo and two-person exhibitions, including Wax Moon Faces, Scroll Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Somewhere Between, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017); Painting of Levitated Mass, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2015); Ground, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2014). She has participated in group exhibitions, including Otherworldly, Future Gallery, Berlin (2023); Hotheads, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2020); To Freeze the Shifting Phantasmagoria: Five California Painters, Jackie Headley University Art Gallery,
