Artist Profile
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Emily Shedlock
US-based figurative artist
Emily Shedlock is a figurative artist based in Boston, MA. Using acrylic paint, she creates portraits that explore shadow work: a type of psychotherapy meant to expose and confront the parts of ourselves that we repress in an effort to develop true self-acceptance. Shedlock received a BFA in Interior Design with a minor in Fine Arts from The New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University in 2015.
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