Philip Keppel — Contemporary Digital Artist
Los Angeles, California & Tavira, Portugal

Selected
Works

SeriesConstructed Digital Art
Works27 Pieces
Year2024–2026
Artist Statement

These images are assembled rather than simply captured. Personal photographs, archival documents, licensed imagery and found material are layered, altered and recontextualized until they become something else entirely. The sources may be familiar. What emerges from them is harder to name.

The working method is one of collision and displacement. Photography, collage, compositing, repetition and color transformation bring personal memory into contact with cultural history; nostalgia meets absurdity; ordinary situations are pushed far enough out of alignment that their meanings begin to shift. Humor, unease and ambiguity often occupy the same image.

No image here is what it first appears to be. That gap between appearance and reality is where the work lives.

Selected Works

27 works
Dinner Theatre
01

Dinner Theatre

Pride
02

Pride

Bulls on Parade
03

Bulls on Parade

Bible: Season 8
04

Bible: Season 8

Diver Down
05

Diver Down

Looking Close
06

Looking Close

Bliss
07

Bliss

Longing
08

Longing

Viaggio verso la libertà
09

Viaggio verso la libertà

Ride On
10

Ride On

Nobody's Home
11

Nobody's Home

Breakdown
12

Breakdown

Haze
13

Haze

Looking for It
14

Looking for It

Simulacrum Break
15

Simulacrum Break

Well-Lived Finish
16

Well-Lived Finish

Found
17

Found

Waters Above
18

Waters Above

Meditative Fez
19

Meditative Fez

Death of Sloppy Joe
20

Death of Sloppy Joe

Family Distraction
21

Family Distraction

Renegades
22

Renegades

Next Step
23

Next Step

Red Bull
24

Red Bull

Morning Cup
25

Morning Cup

Interrupted Lunch
26

Interrupted Lunch

Enticing Music
27

Enticing Music

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About

Philip Keppel

Philip Keppel is a contemporary digital artist working between Los Angeles and Portugal's Algarve region. Drawing from personal photography, archival imagery, public-domain material and licensed visual sources, he builds constructed images through collage, digital manipulation, compositing, repetition and recontextualization.

Keppel draws on personal memory, cultural history, nostalgia, absurdity and everyday observation, creating images in which familiar situations become subtly or dramatically displaced. Humor frequently sits beside unease, while recognizable imagery is stripped of its original certainty.

Rather than prescribe a narrative, Keppel leaves interpretation deliberately open. The resulting works occupy the unstable territory between observation, memory and invention.

Catalogue

01Dinner Theatre02Pride03Bulls on Parade04Bible: Season 805Diver Down06Looking Close07Bliss08Longing09Viaggio verso la libertà10Ride On11Nobody's Home12Breakdown13Haze14Looking for It15Simulacrum Break16Well-Lived Finish17Found18Waters Above19Meditative Fez20Death of Sloppy Joe21Family Distraction22Renegades23Next Step24Red Bull25Morning Cup26Interrupted Lunch27Enticing Music
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