Keltie Ferris

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Keltie Ferris (born 1977, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American abstract painter who currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art (2006). [1]

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Style and technique

Ferris uses several main techniques in his work, including spray guns, chunky paint applied with palette knives, and has included the application of oil and pigments to the canvas using his own body. [2] His paintings are casualist, [3] reference such disparate sources as pointillism, pixelation, and graffiti, [4] and invite the viewer to question what it is they are seeing and to put the images together for themselves. [5]

According to Andrew Goldstein, writing for Artnet , "Ferris became famous for making abstract paintings from meltingly bright blurs of color that seemed both pixelated and powered by the force of their own vibrant chromatic electricity," before adopting the style of using his body, while "wearing a hardy denim outfit," to create paintings around 2014. [6] By 2017, he had resumed using a traditional paintbrush. [6] In 2021, Tausif Noor writes for The New York Times about Ferris's exhibition “FEEEEELING”: "Rejecting a hard disciplinary line between drawing and painting, Ferris revels in that more exhilarating space that emerges between mediums, which allows instinct and intuition to take the lead. [...] Ferris’s ingeniousness, however, is more of a self-critical expansion of his own techniques than a gaze back at the canon, making his style resolutely one of a kind." [7]

Awards

2014 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. [8]

Permanent collections

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References

  1. ↑ "Keltie Ferris - Artists - Mitchell-Innes & Nash". www.miandn.com. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  2. ↑ Chamberlain, Colby (December 2015). "Keltie Ferris: Mitchell-Innes & Nash". Artforum International. 54 (4).
  3. ↑ Butler, Sharon L. (June 3, 2011). "ABSTRACT PAINTING: The New Casualists". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved Sep 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Review: Keltie Ferris, Woman Warrior". The New York Times. 2015-09-17. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  5. ↑ "Painting's Full Arsenal: An Interview with Keltie Ferris - Art in America". Art in America. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  6. 1 2 Goldstein, Andrew (December 8, 2017). "10 of the Most Eye-Opening Artworks at Art Basel Miami Beach". Artnet . Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now". The New York Times . May 20, 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  8. ↑ "Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  9. ↑ Gallery, Saatchi. "Keltie Ferris - Artist's Profile - The Saatchi Gallery". www.saatchigallery.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  10. ↑ "The Wrestler | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art". www.kemperart.org. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  11. ↑ "Painting Collection". www.nermanmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
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