Emily Krill

"Through my artwork, I want to bring back what has been lost to time. My hope is that the viewer will look at the interplay of the past and the present and feel a sense of delight."

She constructs collages out of paper ephemera from the 1850s to the 1970s. Ledgers, checks, documents, and letters; at one time, these papers were very important to the people who owned them. Although these older methods of recording and tracking the details of daily life have become obsolete, they have a tiny spark left in them.

Using a simple cut-and-paste method, she creates large-scale collaged paintings. She adds vibrant ink colors and whimsical patterns to these mundane materials to create something altogether new. The beautifully inked handwriting of an 1880's ledger converges with the clumsy pencil handwriting of a 1940-s school child practicing their spelling.

Emily Krill is a found paper collage artist working in Pittsburgh. She attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts and then Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. She spent twenty years in New York City painting and working for interior designers and architects. She focused on her family for the next fifteen years, but has returned to painting recently.