Emily Ezell is a working artist and professor at Grambling State University. Her practice consists primarily of traditional techniques used in the Western Canon, with subject matter including figurative paintings, swampy landscapes, and magical creatures. The narratives are largely based on mythology and Biblical allegory fused with a Southern Gothic parallel universe. In Ezell's world chaos rules: reptiles are maternal, men are passive, and feminine joy, rage, and pleasure are given radioactive ritual reverence.