Katherine Sepulveda
Late to the Party
2020
Oil, acrylic, and flashe paint on canvas
72" x 48"
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Come Hell or High Water
2020
Oil, acrylic, and flashe paint on canvas
60" x 60"
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The Second (and Third) Coming of Christ
2020
Oil, acrylic, and flashe paint on canvas
28” x 24” Each
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The Second (and Third) Coming of Christ detail 01
2020
Oil, acrylic, and flashe paint on canvas
28” x 24” Each
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The Second (and Third) Coming of Christ detail 02
2020
Oil, acrylic, and flashe paint on canvas
28” x 24” Each
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Altar
2021
Oil, acrylic, and flashe paint on found furniture, family photographs, cardboard, and fabric
96" x 180" x 60"
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Statement
In an era marked by collective mourning on both a global and personal scale, my work aims to facilitate the grieving process. Through painting, I examine the past in a potentially futile attempt to understand the ever-evolving present. My work is informed by family archives such as old photographs and catholic devotional imagery heavily altered to create fictional narratives. By utilizing bold colors and shapes, I am able to simultaneously highlight and abstract the content of each family artifact. Abstract memories are translated onto a larger scale and reinterpreted in a contemporary context. Each large-scale composition represents a pocket universe featuring biblical references, cultural motifs, organic shapes, and apocalyptic imagery. In isolation, I cope with grief by simultaneously celebrating and mourning the loss of cultural systems and interpersonal relationships that have shaped my identity, worldview, and self-perception.
Painting (BFA) Students
Qingxin Meng - not exhibiting
Shirley Ng - not exhibiting
Sophia Wilson - not exhibiting
Vicky Shao - not exhibiting
Zhenrui Yang - not exhibiting