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Oil on cotton canvas
In Midnight Fears, Morning Dreams, Emma Ortiz explores the shifting emotional landscape between nighttime rumination and the renewed perspective of morning. The series began during late summer evenings spent drawing in her sketchbook, using color, mark-making, and line as a means of processing personal anxieties and the uncertainties of the world around her. These intuitive nighttime sessions became a space for reflection and release, translating thoughts and fears into an evolving visual language of color, pattern, and gesture.
By morning, the emotional weight of the previous evening had often receded. Returning to her sketchbook, Ortiz encountered not the anxieties that initiated the drawings, but florals, doves, patterns, and unexpected moments of beauty shaped by intuition and imagination. The twelve paintings that comprise Midnight Fears, Morning Dreams emerged directly from these sessions, carrying elements of both the drawings and the dreams that followed them. Through the series, Ortiz considers the restorative nature of sleep and the possibility of transformation — how fear can soften, perspective can shift, and uncertainty can give way to renewed clarity and hope.
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In Midnight Fears, Morning Dreams, Emma Ortiz explores the shifting emotional landscape between nighttime rumination and the renewed perspective of morning. The series began during late summer evenings spent drawing in her sketchbook, using color, mark-making, and line as a means of processing personal anxieties and the uncertainties of the world around her. These intuitive nighttime sessions became a space for reflection and release, translating thoughts and fears into an evolving visual language of color, pattern, and gesture.
By morning, the emotional weight of the previous evening had often receded. Returning to her sketchbook, Ortiz encountered not the anxieties that initiated the drawings, but florals, doves, patterns, and unexpected moments of beauty shaped by intuition and imagination. The twelve paintings that comprise Midnight Fears, Morning Dreams emerged directly from these sessions, carrying elements of both the drawings and the dreams that followed them. Through the series, Ortiz considers the restorative nature of sleep and the possibility of transformation — how fear can soften, perspective can shift, and uncertainty can give way to renewed clarity and hope.
Artwork Information
Year
2026
Materials
Oil on cotton canvas
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Dimensions
ARTWORK DIMENSIONS
39 x 54 inches
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
39 x 54 inches
Reveal: 40 x 55 x 2 inches
Unframed: 39 x 54 inches
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About the Artist
Emma Ortiz
Emma Ortiz is a painter living and working in Miami, FL. After receiving her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2019, she moved back home to Miami and began painting orchids as studies. Ortiz received her MFA in painting in 2022 and had her New York debut solo show with ATM Gallery in summer 2023.
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In Midnight Fears, Morning Dreams, Emma Ortiz explores the shifting emotional landscape between nighttime rumination and the renewed perspective of morning. The series began during late summer evenings spent drawing in her sketchbook, using color, mark-making, and line as a means of processing personal anxieties and the uncertainties of the world around her. These intuitive nighttime sessions became a space for reflection and release, translating thoughts and fears into an evolving visual language of color, pattern, and gesture.
By morning, the emotional weight of the previous evening had often receded. Returning to her sketchbook, Ortiz encountered not the anxieties that initiated the drawings, but florals, doves, patterns, and unexpected moments of beauty shaped by intuition and imagination. The twelve paintings that comprise Midnight Fears, Morning Dreams emerged directly from these sessions, carrying elements of both the drawings and the dreams that followed them. Through the series, Ortiz considers the restorative nature of sleep and the possibility of transformation — how fear can soften, perspective can shift, and uncertainty can give way to renewed clarity and hope.
