Emily Elisa Halpern is an award-winning artist based in the United States whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in Canada and Mexico. She describes her abstract representational works as reflecting "a disjointed sense of unease in an unpredictable world". Throughout Halpern's career, she has fused the current contemporary political environment with her personal experiences. She endeavors to create art that deepens our understanding of personal meanings reflected in the complex matrix of universally shared emotions.