Emily Kepulis

Emily Kepulis is a mixed media visual artist and muralist living in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Wisconsin, she moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2012 and studied drawing, painting, printmaking, and creative writing. Her work explores the concept of home and how it adapts to our personal experiences and circumstances, recurrently changing and nonlinear. Materializing into abstract landscapes, her paintings acknowledge home as a physical place as well as a place within our bodies and perceptions. She layers heavily with repeating shapes and patterns that are found in both nature and in our own anatomies. Each layer takes on its own kind of immortal quality, albeit much of the time buried by more paint, reflecting the impermanence and adaptability of home as well as its permanence in the present moment and in memory. This is where her work feels most true: when she allows it to be adaptable, to react to itself and become what it is going to be in consideration of what it has been, and in consideration of what currently is. It feels both heady and grounding at the same time, emblematic of the inevitable and ever present paradoxes that define this life.

Get in touch with Emily: www.emilykepulis.com

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