Megan Porpeglia (b. 1990) is a New York based artist making paintings and drawings that engage the particularities of objects in her daily surroundings. The work is impacted by aspects of Megan’s lived life between urban and wild environments.

Megan received her BFA in Painting from SUNY New Paltz in 2013 and her MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 2017. She has attended residencies in Calabria, Sardinia, and New York. Megan has shown her work internationally and nationally while also hosting exhibitions in her Brooklyn apartment.

The continuous path in my work requires finding ways to visually articulate the ambiguous space between an individual and their environment. I am particularly invested in how steady observation can reveal a delicate relationship between person and landscape or an everyday object. I ask what it means to be here - to question the attachment to a home, to honor the places that behold us, and to remember the spaces that reveal our human scale. 

My visual investigation takes form in drawing and painting. The work paces between varying degrees of figuration and abstraction. When I meander through observation, memory, and imagination, the drawn mark guides this work to ultimately inhabit a familiar but novel dwelling of its own. I offer pockets of these assembled observations to perhaps empower our wavering perceptions to move beyond a learned truth.