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Works on Paper
I started using watercolors in 2009. Initially, this move was driven by a commercial impulse to produce affordable work that I could make and sell more quickly. I was also between studio spaces and watercolors were more compact and less toxic (cats + oil primer = disaster). I began drawing from source material for many…
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Animal Portraits
Cats have long figured in art. In Egypt, they were associated with the goddesses Isis and Ba’at, the jaguar in Mesoamerican culture is a spirit companion and has the ability to cross between worlds, lions in European heraldry traditionally symbolize bravery, valor, strength, and royalty (the king of beasts). All have strong associations with majesty…
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Portraits & The Figure
My education as a painter is rooted in the figure so it is always something that I return to. Several of these portraits are commissions or people that I know. Others are based on photographs that I have found or taken.
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Painting Delilah’s
In 2003 I was working on graduating from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, waiting tables, and beginning to show my art. Mike Miller, owner of Delilah’s, saw some of my bar scene paintings at a Wicker Park art festival called Around the Coyote (now defunct) and asked me to create a series of work based…
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Urban Landscapes
I am seeking a moment that, when painted, transcends mundane expectations to reveal an intensely present experience in the varied strokes of paint. For example, “Woman Walking,” set in a Burger King parking lot explores what is unseen. The abstracted figure moves past the viewer, ghost-like, framed by the structures of the building and electrical…
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El Tracks and Stations
Chicago’s El Tracks have a distinct sense of place and history. The overhead tracks are old, rusted, with layers of paint, graffiti, posters, and garbage. Having to run to catch or stand and wait for the train or bus in all types of weather and among all types of people is a quintessential aspect of city living.…
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Fast Food Joints
Fast food restaurants promise to fulfill the basic human need of food and society but, in fact, they replace the sustenance of both good food and community with a “custom” isolated “meal on the go”. Productivity wins again, ensuring that even our free time is spent multi-tasking and without being present in the moment. Night…
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House Portraits
From our earliest efforts to communicate who we are by drawing our “home”, the square with the triangle on top, home is an archetypal symbol. These house portraits explore home as an organic structure that has a natural lifespan. The architecture of “home” – the house itself – is a vessel for shared human experience…
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Privacy Policy
Who we are Our website address is: https://emilyrapport.com. All images and content are the sole intellectual property of Emily Rapport and protected by copyright law. You may not duplicate, print, sell or otherwise use the images on this website without securing written permission from the artist. What personal data we collect and why we collect…
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Grand Opening of Eat Paint Studio on Lincoln Ave
This Saturday, October 6, Emily Rapport will host the grand opening of “Eat Paint Studio” at 5036 N Lincoln Ave. The storefront studio will be an art gallery and working studio for the Chicago artist. An opening reception will be held from 5pm – 9pm on Saturday, October 6. A ribbon cutting ceremony performed by…
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Work selected for display in the Rockford Midwestern Biennial
The painting, “Streets and San: Building a New Chicago,” has been selected for inclusion in the Rockford Midwestern Biennial this Summer. Details below: FRI, JUN 8 | MEMBERS + ARTISTS PREVIEW 5–6 PM | GALLERY WALK WITH THE JUROR 6–7:30 PM | RECEPTION + ARTIST AWARDS 7:30–8:30 PM | FREE PUBLIC OPENING, CASH BAR Juried…
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8/31/17 Delilah’s 24th Anniversary and Whiskey Release Party
Thursday, August 31, you are invited to the 24th Anniversay celebration at Delilah’s, 2771 N Lincoln Ave. New artwork by myself will be on view as well as adorning the small batch whiskey distilled and bottled by Oppidan Spirits especially for Delilah’s 24th. Available ONLY at Delilah’s. Delilah’s opened in 1993 in a space that…
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Artist Emily Rapport explores the “architecture of place” in her first solo exhibition of paintings at Firecat Projects.
The exhibition, titled “Subject to Change: Urban Landscape and the Architecture of Place,” is both a documentary archive of a neighborhood undergoing physical and demographic shifts, and a painterly narrative that finds moments of sublime beauty in construction site debris and frozen mud tracks. Through her ongoing documentation of the changing urban landscape, Emily paints…
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House and Home at Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs NY
HOUSE & HOME Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY July 9 – August 19 House and Home: An exhibition of artwork dealing with the structure of a house and the emotional response to the notion of home. Featuring the artwork of Jerry Alonzo, Christopher Baker, Dale Klein, Emily Rapport, and Susan Stuart. Exhibition Dates: July 9–August 19,…
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Display of Emily Rapport’s paintings in Chicago office of Lipman Hearne
13 paintings will be on display in the downtown Chicago office of Lipman Hearne through 2016. Located at 200 S Michigan Ave # 1600, Chicago, IL 60604, the exhibit is open to the public during regular office hours, M-F, 8am – 6pm. Lipman Hearne is a marketing & communications agency for higher education & nonprofits, providing research, strategy,…