Emily Ludwig Shaffer
Discovery#33
Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
3/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
4/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
6/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
0/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
5/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Pricing
- $5,000-$40,000+
- Liquidity
- Limited - approximately 6 auction lots recorded
- Collector Base
- Contemporary art collectors focused on emerging feminist painters
- Auction History
- Market Trajectory
- Emerging secondary market with recent Phillips presence
- Recent Sales 2024
- Date
- September 25, 2024
- Year
- 2021
- Title
- New Fence Finials
- Venue
- Phillips New York
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Estimate
- $10,000-15,000
- Dimensions
- 30 1/8 x 26 in. (76.5 x 66 cm)
- Hammer Price
- $9,525
- Geographic Markets
- US primary, European secondary through gallery network
- Auction Record High
- 40320
- Auction Record Details
- Bay Leaf Wrapped Night, sold $40,320 at Phillips (estimate $5,000-7,000)
Institutional Presence
- Exhibitions
- Museum Collections
- Curatorial Attention
- Group exhibitions at established institutions
- Awards and Recognition
- Institutional Recognition
- Museum-adjacent through major New York venues
Career & Biography
- Career
- Personal Milestones
- Became a mother in 2021, influencing recent work direction
- Identity
- Key Themes
- Female statues, domestic spaces, gardens, architectural forms, feminist perspective on space
- Current Location
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Artistic Practice
- Surrealist paintings exploring gender, domestic space, architecture
- Artistic Context
- de Chirico spatial metaphysics, Christine de Pizan's proto-feminist writing, classical statuary
Artistic Profile
- Style
- Stone female statues, architectural forms, muted color palettes, surreal domestic spaces
- Visual Language
- Medium to large format (typically 30-72 inches) Muted, cool tones with strategic color accents Architectural precision with surreal spatial logic
- Movements and Periods
- Techniques and Mediums
- Acrylic on canvas, hard-edge painting, precise architectural rendering
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Major Reviews
Title Date Critic Publication Emily Ludwig Shaffer Dissolves the Domicile December 2022 Eliza Levinson Frieze — June 2021 Madeleine Seidel The Brooklyn Rail Visiting the Secret Gardens of Emily Ludwig Shaffer May 2021 — Elephant Magazine - Discourse Themes
- Gender, architecture, domestic space, contemporary surrealism
- Critical Trajectory
- Growing attention from major art publications
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Through gallery network at major fairs
- Representation
- Gallery Tier
- Strong Tier 2 with emerging Tier 1 (Peres Projects)
- Secondary Galleries
Year Location Exhibition Gallery 2021 Mykonos An Island Refrain Dio Horia 2021 New York Two-person with Françoise Grossen L'Inconnue
- Geographic Reach
- International - US, Europe, Asia through Peres Projects network
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