About Constance
Born 1969, in Texas. Lived and worked in Philadelphia and currently located in Los Angeles, California.
Constance Culpepper studied psychology and studio art at Southern Methodist University (B.A.) and received an M.A. in Clinical Developmental Psychology from Bryn Mawr College. Her collective work is a depiction of domesticity and the commonalities of personal experience, informed from her background in psychology and her itinerant childhood in rural Texas and Southern Louisiana - filled with antiques, American quilts, and strong women.
In 2019, Culpepper’s work was included in 12 Chairs at Jim Kempner Fine Art, alongside work by Louise Bourgeois, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Gehry. Her paintings were featured in Hygge at Park Towne Place’s InLiquid Galleries in 2021, and at the Philadelphia International Airport in 2022-2023. An installation of her collages can be found at The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia through 2023. Culpepper worked with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program in 2018, painting murals in the East Falls and South Philly neighborhoods of the city. She is Director Emeritus of Philadelphia’s 3rd Street Gallery.
Culpepper’s paintings are held in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Russia and have been featured in national gallery, museum and university exhibitions.
My creative process is informed by logic and experience: a childhood of internal conflict, stemming from conventional female roles and conservative ideology inspired my voice. I aim to express femininity, freedom, and social commentary in my paintings, and, at times, specifically how gender roles define the household and how the household represents something so much larger, how we as people become attached to objects and ideas and the deeper connection behind this. I use paintings that focus on furniture, lone figures, and bright, energetic colors as vehicles to express emotion and create compositions meant to question personal space, perspective and each person’s place in the world.
