Selene Sepsey Plum earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996.

Until recently, her studio has been a 100 year old farm house in Green County, Wisconsin, where she spent the majority of her time working in wax+oil and growing herbs and flowers.

Selene also was a cooperative director of Las Manos Gallery in Andersonville, Chicago.  This is a decade old gallery which shows established as well as emerging artists.  Las Manos also serves as a community performance space; hosting discussions, dramatic monologues and panel discussions on topics such as reform and shows ranging from ruminations on birds to art from death row.

She has been working as a set designer and prop stylist for photography and national TV commercials for 20 years.

She owns a 100 year old firehouse in Chicago with her husband and partner, Timothy Plum.  It has been renovated for use as a sound stage for film production and event space for weddings and corporate events.

She now lives in Asheville, with her studio in the much coveted Riverview Building in the RiverArts District.  She is busy hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains and producing meditations and memories about the structure of this new landscape.

ARTISTIC STATEMENT 2022

Over the last few years I have been exploring 2 series of work: Wisconsin horizons and frozen lake Michigan.  This is literally because of the locations of my 2 studios; one being in my 128 year old farm house in southern Wisconsin and the other is my little space across the street from lake Michigan in Chicago.

I am now living in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  I am living in the bone structure of this landscape and everything beneath it. These works are my daily journals rendering sky and dirt with wax + fire.

I want my viewer to experience something familiar and new, I want them to care for the earth as much as I do.