McIntyre’s paintings offer surprisingly capacious propositions. Color, for one, affects internal expansiveness, which at times causes her pictures to vertiginously open out. In a number of works, the artist inversely exploits the compositional ploy of the proscenium frame to mediate a spatial recession into a world of polychromatic pleasure, keeping hold of the devices of pictorial illusion (long since smuggled into abstraction) in order to reveal them as both means and end.
- Suzanne Hudson on Emma McIntyre in Artforum International
 
Coastal Signs is pleased to present Madonna of the Pomegranate, a solo exhibition of new painting by Emma McIntyre.

Emma McIntyre (b. 1990, Auckland) graduated with a BVA (Painting) from AUT University in 2011, and an MFA from University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in 2016. In 2019 she was awarded a Fulbright General Graduate award to study an MFA at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, that she completed in 2021. 
Recent solo exhibitions include: Up bubbles her amorous breath, Air de Paris, Paris  (2022), Pinkisms, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (2021); Pour plenty on the worlds, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Heat, Mossman Gallery, Wellington (2020); The Blue of It, 21 Shaddock St with Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (2019); and Pink Square Sways, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (2017). Recent group exhibitions include: ENSEMBLE, Château Shatto, Los Angeles; Crossings, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2021); and Painting: A Transitive Space, St. Paul Street Gallery Three, Auckland (2016). In the past year, McIntyre's exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum, Flash Art, and Frieze, among others.