Oregon-born Remedios Rapoport is a Pacific Northwest artist working from her Portland studio. In 1988, Rapoport began studying Filete Porteño with masters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After receiving her BFA degree in 1989 from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, she continued incorporating Filete into her paintings and sculptures. With support from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, Oregon, her work has been collected and exhibited in national and international museums and galleries. Exhibitions have taken her work to communities including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Chicago, and Buenos Aires.

Working as a sign painter and muralist propelled her career with funding and skill-building projects that allowed her to develop new ways to be a painter. Her fine art paintings began to evolve into dimensional wall sculptures and kinetic sculptures, combining letter forms, pictorials, and found objects. 'Word Portraits' became a description for this new art form.