emily quandahl

Emily Quandahl (b. 1994) is a painter and mixed-media artist based in Minneapolis.

Her compositions utilize bold palettes and textures, beginning intuitively on the floor with washes of diluted acrylic. She then deconstructs these initial paintings by cutting, rearranging, and rebuilding them through hand-stitching, quilting, and mending techniques. These craft-based methods allow her to abstract and reassemble the work until a sense of balance emerges, blending fine art with folk tradition that fosters experimentation and grounding simultaneously.

Combining crafts such as needlework and hand-stitched quilting with raw canvas painting are of her latest focus.