The Studio (Memphis)

Rendered in Emily Mae Smith's signature style, *The Studio (Memphis)* features her iconic broom-figure protagonist inhabiting a boldly patterned interior alive with the geometric shapes and saturated colors associated with the Memphis design movement. Smith layers prepared ground, acrylic, and oil on linen to achieve a surface that balances graphic flatness with painterly depth, collapsing distinctions between fine art and decorative aesthetics. The composition playfully interrogates themes of artistic labor, feminism, and the coded history of ornament through the lens of a surrealist domestic scene.