Bio:
Elizabeth Katherine Porcel (ekporcel) is an Atlanta-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, and stitched textile, though she considers all of it, at its heart, painting. Raised on Long Island, New York, Porcel showed early artistic promise, working as a studio assistant to a local sculptor and attending pre-college figure drawing courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology before attending the Pratt Institute for 3 semesters. After a notable detour through Mortuary Science, a path that would deepen her preoccupation with impermanence and the fleeting nature of life she relocated to Atlanta and enrolled at SCAD Atlanta, where she graduated summa cum laude in painting, raising two children while earning her degree.
Porcel’s practice is richly layered, drawing on matriarchal symbolism, the rhythms of domestic life, medieval bestiaries and organic forms. From 2017 – 2022, her studio work was centered on a self-described “lady bestiary” a feminist reimagining of the historical form exploring themes of motherhood, maintenance, and biology through images of animal mothers navigating unpredictable landscapes. Her 2022 solo exhibition “Trees of Bone” at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University was a showcase of paintings of fauna infused imaginary flora. Her paintings have also been featured at Poem 88 Gallery in Atlanta and in the collaborative exhibition “The Garden of Earthly Delights”.
An artist deeply embedded in her community, Porcel currently serves on the Forsyth County Art Alliance and has served as an ambassador for MOCAGA (the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia), participated in the Atlanta Science Festival creating works in response to bacterial communication research from Georgia Tech and contributed to the Brooklyn Art Library’s Sketchbook Project.
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