EMILY KEPULIS
ALMOST YOUNG

APRIL 4 - MAY 3, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025
5-8 PM

ON VIEW
APRIL 4 - MAY 3, 2025

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Chefas Projects is delighted to present Almost Young, a series of new paintings by Emily Kepulis. Through illuminated scenes that embody a familiar stillness, Almost Young meditates on the pliability of time – especially its ability to suspend and transform us – and how our perception of it influences our experiences of everything.

For Kepulis, the in-between moments of life – sometimes overlooked as quotidien or mundane – hold the power to charge our human experience just as much as the significant ones. Reveling in the quiet spaces between one moment and the next, Kepulis paints luscious scenes that tend to a certain specialness found in liminality: a drying sheet on a clothesline animated by a breeze, the warm light of either a sunrise or sunset dappled on leaves of a house plant, a goose in mid-flight. Her subjects are both coming and going, neither here nor there, finding themselves through the transition.

While she references family photos, her own past paintings, and even anonymous found photos, Kepulis composes each painting with trust and intuition, allowing its final form to arrive through her observations and reflections. Almost Young explores how the things around us that find us in these quiet moments shape our perceptions of ourselves and how we connect to the larger picture as a whole.

Emily Kepulis, Midwest raised, made her way to the Pacific Northwest in 2012 and graduated from Portland State University where she studied drawing, painting, printmaking, and creative writing. Kepulis has exhibited her work in venues across Portland, San Francisco, Miami, and Vancouver Island, and has been commissioned for several murals in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco. Her paintings have been featured in Suboart, I Like Your Work, and Create!, among others.

The opening reception for Almost Young will take place at Chefas Projects on Friday, April 11, 2025, from 5-8 pm. Located in Portland, Oregon, at 134 SE Taylor Street on the first floor of the Taylor Works building, Chefas Projects invites the public to explore this unique exhibition, which will be on view through May 3, 2025.

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