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Angel Tripoulas
Bio
Angel Tripoulas is a mixed-media artist working between painting, assemblage, and symbolic abstraction. Her work explores memory, ancestral inheritance, grief, and transformation through raw materiality and intuitive mark-making.
Drawing from personal history, myth, and emotional archaeology, Tripoulas creates images that feel both childlike and ancient—figures emerge, dissolve, and reappear through layered pigment, organic matter, and gesture. Faces are partially obscured, bodies fragment, and symbols repeat as acts of witness rather than illustration.
Her practice is rooted in process over outcome. Paint is pushed, scraped, buried, and revived. Natural elements, found materials, and ritualistic repetition serve as a way of holding experience rather than resolving it. The resulting works exist in a liminal space between tenderness and violence, silence and eruption.
Tripoulas is an American woman of Scottish, Irish, and English descent, living and working in Ohio. Her work reflects a commitment to emotional truth, spiritual inquiry, and the honoring of unseen narratives—particularly those carried in the body across generations.
Artist Statement
My work is an act of witnessing.
I paint to hold what lingers—memory, grief, inheritance, and the quiet force of becoming. Through layered paint, gesture, and found or organic materials, figures emerge and dissolve, often resisting completion. Faces blur, bodies fragment, and symbols repeat not as decoration, but as evidence of presence.
My process is intuitive and ritual-based. Paint is applied, buried, scraped away, and reintroduced. I allow accidents, pressure, and material resistance to guide the work. Rather than illustrating ideas, I work from sensation and emotional residue, trusting the body to remember what language cannot.
Ancestry and lived experience inform my practice deeply. As a third-generation American woman of Scottish, Irish, and English descent living and working in Ohio, I am interested in how stories travel through generations—how they imprint themselves in gesture, silence, and form. The work often carries a childlike directness alongside an ancient, mythic weight, reflecting the duality of vulnerability and endurance.
I am drawn to thresholds: between tenderness and violence, visibility and erasure, chaos and devotion. My paintings function as sites of transformation—spaces where emotion is not resolved, but honored. What matters is not clarity, but truth.