{"id":14822,"date":"2026-04-15T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=14822"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:13:55","slug":"emily-krill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/emily-krill","title":{"rendered":"Emily Krill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Birds of Paradise<\/em>
40″x30″; 1879 Victorian autograph book, chalk paint on 1907 ledgers, ink-washed 1910 Freemasons’ meeting minutes, 1890s penmanship teacher’s lesson plans and 1950s letterform homework and patterned handmade Nepalese Lokta paper; 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emily Krill
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antique paper carries a particular kind of presence. The loop of a signature, the fade of ink, the texture of a page worn by a century or more of handling are not merely aesthetic qualities. They are evidence. Someone lived, worked, wrote, and left a mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My large-scale collages are built from ledgers, letters, blueprints, lessons, and autograph books spanning the early 1800s through the mid-1900s. I collect these materials for what they hold: the narrative residue of ordinary lives, the handwritten and the printed, the intimate and the institutional. Through the act of collage, I fragment and reconfigure them into new compositions that ask what it means to preserve, to disrupt, and to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am drawn to paper ephemera that was never meant to be art. That tension is where my work lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Krill is a Pittsburgh-based collage artist, represented by ZYNKA Gallery, whose large-scale works are constructed from antique paper ephemera collected over years of dedicated searching. Her source materials span the 1800s through the 1970s and include ledgers, letters, blueprints, and children\u2019s lessons, chosen as much for their historical context as for their visual and tactile qualities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krill maintains several ongoing bodies of work, among them the \u201cMoving Still Lives Series,\u201d the \u201cHandwritten Seas Series,\u201d and the \u201cOrange Tree Series.\u201d She also accepts private commissions incorporating genealogical and archival materials, creating collages that weave together a family\u2019s documentary history into a single cohesive work. Notable commissions include Strong Roots<\/em>, created for The Pittsburgh Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work has been exhibited throughout the Pittsburgh arts community, including the group exhibition \u201cColor Stories\u201d at Atithi Studios in Sharpsburg and her current solo exhibition \u201cWhat Remains,\u201d on view at The Portal in Bakery Square through May 2026. She writes about historical ephemera and the stories behind her finds through an ongoing collector\u2019s blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canceled Check Sunset<\/em>
40″x30″; ink-washed 1910 Freemasons’ lodge meeting minutes, 1910 canceled checks, ink-washed 1800s ledgers, and ink-washed school-lined paper; 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Love, Raymond<\/em>
40″x30″; letter and postcard stamped 1917, patterned Lokta paper, tea-stained graph paper, 1960s wartime letters signed “Love, Raymond”, ink-washed ledgers, chalk paint on braille; 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Orange Tree<\/em>
40″x30″; chalk paint and ink wash on 1910 Freemasons\u2019 lodge meeting minutes, mid-1900s blueprints and pattern-printed Nepalese Lokta paper; 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seated Woman<\/em>
60″x48″; ink-washed 1800s ledgers, 1966 astrological charts, 1910 Freemasons’ lodge meeting minutes, 1950s handwriting homework, 1920s Sunday school attendance sheets, metallic gold paint, pages from a shorthand manual, acrylic, blueprints, pattern-printed Nepalese Lokta paper, and handwritten musical notation; 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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