Curtis Kelly
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Curtis Kelly is a
nationally recognized artist whose works have been featured in
exhibitions and museums across the country, including the Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; the New England Museum for
Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT; the Lincoln Center Cork Gallery in New
York; Florida's Vero Beach Center for the Arts; and Buffalo, New York's
Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
She has had solo
exhibits at the J.J. Brookings Gallery in San Francisco; the Ann Leonard
Gallery in Woodstock, New York; Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton,
New York; Lighthouse Gallery, Tequesta, Florida; Cary Gallery,
Rochester, Michigan; and the Robert and Mary Montgomery Armory Art
Center in Palm Beach, among others.
Her work has been
featured in such publications as Where Magazine, New York; the New York
Daily News, Palm Beach Daily News, and the "Arts & Leisure" section of
The New York Times. She regularly shows at the Sherry French Gallery in
Manhattan, which can be visited on the website:
sherryfrenchgallery.com
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Curtis Kelly began
painting in the 60s, when she moved to New York from Michigan. In the
early 70s she moved to East Hampton, commuting between there and
Manhattan.
For the past ten
years she has had a studio in Palm Beach, where she now does most of her
work. She paints in both oil and gouache, in a style she calls
"impressionistic realism," and her subjects range from still lifes to
beach scenes to figurative paintings.
Henry Riseman,
Museum Director of the New England Center for Contemporary Art said of
her work: "Curtis Kelly's brilliantly colored canvases communicate a
powerful spontaneity and energy. She is one of the new wave of emerging
painters on the art scene and her future should be a bright one."
Renata Stein,
Artist-in-Residence, Museum NECCA said of her work: "The skillfully
rendered still life paintings by Curtis Kelly display the artist's
mastery at its best. Painted in bold, luminous colors, the still lifes
unfold against a background of intricate patterns, conveying a sense of
exuberance and a celebration of life rarely found in modern painting
today."
The "Palm Beach
Chic" Magazine printed: "Curtis Kelly's exquisite still lifes are bold
and colorful, with a subtle off-kilter perspective that gives them a
dynamic vibrancy. Her beach scenes project a casual insouciance that
belies her carefully considered compositions."
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