Keltie Ferris Exhibition
Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St.)
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Mitchell-Innes & Nash presents its second solo exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist Keltie Ferris. The exhibition will include approximately a dozen new paintings made during a recent stay in Los Angeles, California as well as a number of the artist’s body prints—Ferris’s ongoing series of unique works on paper. This will be the first time Ferris’s paintings and body prints will be exhibited together.
The new body of work features Ferris’s expanding investigation into painting as a multiplanar site for constructed light and shifting space. Akin to her earlier layered compositions, these new works are built from discrete, integral marks that solidify and dissolve between mass and landscape. Expanding her range of mark making in scale shifts and close ups, Ferris couples syncopated brushstrokes with airbrushed oil paint to create surfaces that combine the topography of textiles with the banter of gestural mark making.
In her body prints Ferris explores painting as a personal index. Using natural oils, pigments, and her whole body like a brush, Ferris presses herself onto the paper. Through minimal materials and the ambiguous impressions of her imprint, Ferris literalizes and reifies the relationship of an artists’ identity to the work that she or he produces. Together the new paintings and body prints ask how the artist might be conveyed in the presence of a single mark – a smear, a press, a drag, a spray – and whether collectively these marks can be experienced as a fixed space or single body.
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Schedule
from September 10, 2015 to October 17, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00