Leah Yerpe Leah Yerpe

Born in 1985, Leah grew up in the rural backwoods of upstate New York, in a town with a single stop sign. Naturally, she moved to the biggest, fastest city in the USA where she received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2009. Since then, her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in galleries, museums, and art fairs, and discussed in publications including The Paris Review, PMc Magazine, and Visual Overture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
 
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Metamorphosis was part of an exhibit exploring notions surrounding the transformation of human beings into stars. The mythology of nearly every ancient civilization includes stories where humans turn into constellations. That fantastic metamorphosis is both seductive and frightening; you become an eternal, dazzling being of light, but at what cost? This painting depicts human bodies in flux. They are simultaneously melding into a larger whole, and breaking apart into their individual forms. There is no final destination, only an uncertain journey.
 

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