Member News-Colleen Kelly

Colleen M. Kelly's wonderful whimsical art installation will be celebrated on Sunday, January 29, 2 to 5 pm. Anyone attending will be able to put their dreams and wishes into a little bottle which will hang as part of the exhibition! It will happen rain or shine! Bring the whole family, bring a picnic, or just bring yourself. The installation is inside the landmark Streamline Moderne gas station, with a sweet little park wrapped around it. It is totally cool! Opening reception Sunday January 29, 2017 @ 2:00-5:00pm. It will be up through the end of April. 2017.

Colleen M. Kelly
www.ColleenMKelly.com

"Dream Portal: Once Upon a Time" Information:

Exhibition Opening: Sunday, January 29, 2017 , 2:00-5:00pm  

It is illuminated at night.

Exhibition: Jan 29,2017-April 30, 2017

Daily Hours: 24/7

Location: Adam's Square Mini-Park Gas Station

Address: 1020 E. Palmer Ave. Glendale 91205

Phone: (805) 965-7247

Website: http://www.adamshill.org/

Member News- Colleen M Kelly

Member Colleen M Kelly is exhibiting 

in the following exhibits that are on view through November

Brand 44: Opening Reception for the 44th Brand      

Annual National Juried Exhibition

On View: September 24 - October 28, 2016 

Celebrate the opening of the 44th Brand Annual National Juried Exhibition, sponsored by Brand Associates. This year’s juror, Laddie John Dill selected 102 works of art out of 842 submissions from across the country.

        Brand Library & Art Center

    1601 WEST MOUNTAIN STREET 

                                                                                    
GLENDALE | CALIFORNIA | 91201

HOURS: MON - THU 10AM-8PM  |  FRI - SUN 10AM-5PM
818.548.2051  |  info@brandlibrary.org  | www.brandlibrary.org

Member News- Closing Reception Colleen Kelly

Cathy Akers, Time Doyle, Colleen Kelly, Alison Kuo, Jane Szabo and Carrie Yury encourage new dialogue about the sharedhuman struggle with identity through widely varing works of art. Revelations from self-examination, studies in social anthropology, astute observations about prejudice and outright rebellion against established morals; each artist emboldens the viewer to scratch below the surface to reveal a web of human complexity

  On View | August 13 - September 17, 2017

 HOURS: MON - THU 10AM-8PM  |  FRI - SUN 10AM-5PM

Held-Over an extra day for Special Events

"Naked Underneath"

Closing Event

On the final day of "Naked Underneath" we celebrate the exhibition with a series of events including performances by the Santa Barbara City College Dance Trust and Santa Barbara Poet Laureate: Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, curator led gallery tours and a picnic with the artists! 

12:00pm - PICNIC LUNCH

Pack a picnic lunch and join artists from the exhibition on the grass outside of the gallery for an informal get together to discuss...what else...ART!

1:00pm - CURATOR WALK THROUGH

Join Brand Gallery Exhibition Supervisor, Shannon Currie Holmes for a curator walkthrough of the exhibition.

2:00pm - DANCE AND POETRY PERFORMANCE

Dance and Poetry Performance by Santa Barbara City College Dance Trust and Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, inspired by artist Colleen M. Kelly's art series titled "Naked Under Her Clothes"

                                         

                                

               BRAND Library & Art Center

      1601 West Mountain  St.,   Glendale, Ca., 91201                                   

Member News-Colleen Kelly

 On View | August 13 - September 16, 2016   

Opening Reception 

August 13, 6-9pm                                                                                                           

                                                            Brand Library & Art Center                                                            

                                                                                     1601 WEST MOUNTAIN STREET                                                

                                                                                   GLENDALE | CALIFORNIA | 91201 [map]                                                                  

                                                       HOURS: TUE & THU 12-8PM |  WED 12-6PM  |  FRI & SAT 10AM-5PM

                                                                 818.548.2051 |  info@brandlibrary.org | www.brandlibrary.org 

Poets Respond

The Santa Barbara Printmakers’ 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition provides a unique opportunity to the Santa Barbara community to view and learn about fine art printmaking today. Artists throughout California were invited to submit up to three works for the exhibition.

As part of the programming around the Printmakers' exhibition, the Poets Respond to Prints event will take place during 1st Thursday Jan. 7, 2016, from 5-8 p.m, with the reading beginning promptly at 6 p.m. in the Planning Commission Hearing Room adjacent to Channing Peake Gallery in the Santa Barbara County Administration Building, 105 E. Anapamu Street.

The event is moderated by co-curators Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Sojourner Kincaid Rolle and Linda Saccoccio.

Other participating poets include Santa Barbara Poets Laureate Emeriti Perie Longo, David Starkey and Chryss Yost; Rhode Island Poet Laureate Rick Benjamin; Ron Alexander; Susan Chiavelli; Carol DeCanio; Richard Jarrette; Enid Osborn; Emma Trelles and George Yatchisin.

Starry Abyss by Bay Hallowell

The poets were inspired by prints created by artists using a variety of techniques, such as woodblock printing, photopolymer etching, viscosity monoprints and chine-collé.

Poets responded to artworks by Tony Askew, Cody Cambell, Rosemarie Gebhart, Colleen Kelly, David Graves, Bay Hallowell, Patricia Post, Karen Schroeder, Garrett Speirs, Nina Ward, Sara Woodburn and Don Zimmerman.

“Santa Barbara poets have an honored tradition of creating ekphrastic poetry inspired by the work of visual artists," Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Rolle said. "We are honored to be invited by the group to interact with their work. This symbiosis of words and images offers an expanded interpretation of the individual works for both the printmaker and the poet.” 

For more information on the Santa Barbara Printmakers, please contact Bay Hallowell at bayhallowell@gmail.com.

For information on Channing Peake exhibitions and 1st Thursday events in the gallery, please contact the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission at 805.568.3990 or online at www.sbartscommission.org.

— Elizabeth Hallowell represents the Santa Barbara Arts Commission.

Opening October 1st 2015-Channing Peake Gallery

Several Inspot members were juried into this exhibition 

curated by John Grecco

Beverly Decker

Ginny Furmanski
Rosemarie C Gebhart

Bay Hallowell

Colleen Kelly

Monica Wiesblott

Opening at 643 Project Space

Colleen Kelly in Print

Colleen M Kelly: "Dressed"

Like paper dolls from the latter days of Mad Men, altered by a presence of physical graffiti, the monotypes with chine collé in Colleen M. Kelly's disarming series Naked Under Her Clothes are subversive and subtle, sexy but not sexual, traditional and unconventional, subliminal and right there on the surface. What appear to be expressive nudes rendered in a language of gestural, eccentric line drawing, draped in transparent or translucent retro fashions, is in fact nearly the opposite. The nudes did come first -- but in these prints, they exist on top of the clothes, hovering over the garments even as they occupy them. This paradoxical and slightly hallucinatory format is both the literal result of the chine collé print studio process that produced them, and the conceptual consequence of the political circumstances that inspired them -- plus a healthy dose of serendipity and resourcefulness in creative problem-solving.


In the case of Naked Under Her Clothes, the context of creation and the particulars of process are even more salient than usual to the meaning of the work -- integral in fact. She had been working for some time on these charming, slightly eerie nude studies, in the vein of Picasso's expressive single-line Vollard Suite etchings or even the whimsical near-abstraction of John Lennon's own drawings. At a certain point, Kelly was unexpectedly confronted with the need to comply with a nudity ban at the county art gallery in Santa Barbara where she was planning to exhibit them. Naked Under Her Clothes thus came to represent a response to this outrage, tapping into her deep and enduring feminist roots along with her sense of irony and humor. And all of this is contained not only in the visual language of her images, but in the serendipitous method by which she was able to construct them.

Vintage dress-making patterns were, oddly enough, quite plentiful in the print shop where she works. They were commonly salvaged for the tissue paper, while the envelopes printed with quirky and colorful sketches of the clothes were discarded. The plate sizes of Kelly's nudes is generally small, under six inches, and it turned out that the models on those envelopes were about the same size as her figures. The idea took hold rather quickly, and Kelly began "dressing" her figures accordingly. But what began as a political workaround soon took on unique formal imperatives and an inner life of its own. Although the "dressed" figures constitute a self-contained series, Kelly often chooses to show them in pairs or otherwise matched up with the original nudes in their birthday suits. This generates among other insights, the realization that the same anatomical armature is capable of telling wildly different stories depending on what they are wearing; and furthermore, one can see the same nude wearing different outfits and yet barely recognize her even when it's pointed out -- just like in real-life fashion.

On most of Kelly's prints, the chine colle᷇ "escapes the matrix" -- a term with a wonderful semiotic expansiveness simply indicating that the applied image sits beyond the frame created by the edges of the etched plate. Cheeky gingham frocks, crisp trouser pleats, sweeping chiffon ballgowns, flowing scarves, stockinged legs and elegantly shod feet unfurl over the threshold. Sometimes arms and legs are all that appear from the pattern, leaving the nude undressed save for boots or a charming hat like in that old Randy Newman song. The visual effect is assertive and eccentric, providing the image with a sense of movement and narrative emotionality. In a sense it's really another kind of matrix altogether that they are escaping -- the frame of civic dominion, conservatism, and body shaming that had threatened to trap them in a quagmire of misunderstanding.

Naked Under Her Clothes opens Saturday, June 27, 6-9pm, at 
Gallery 825in West Hollywood, and continues through July 24.

See the whole article and additional images here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shana-nys-dambrot/colleen-m-kelly-escaping-_b_7607438.html

Member News-Colleen Kelly

Inkspot Member Colleen Kelly

Opening reception at Gallery 825

Los Angeles, CA

Member News-Colleen Kelly in Waterworks II in Ojai

Featuring artists

Richard Amend, Susan Amorde, Nurit Avesar, Vince Baworouski, Bobbi Bennett, MB Boissonnault, Bill Leigh Brewer, Gary Brewer, Patricia Chidlaw, Diane Cockerill, Duane Dammeyer, Bibi Davidson, Lynne Deutch, Bill Dewey, L. Aviva Diamond, Elizabeth Garat, Jack Halbert, Sharon Hardy, Mark Indig, Cynthia James, Amy Kaczur, Colleen M Kelly, J. J. L'heureux, Terri Laine, Campbell Laird, Feng Ling, Daniel Leighton, Daniel Jack Lyons, Aline Mare, Bruce Mcallister, Jim Mcaninch, Mary Mcgill, Wendy Osher, Ann Phong, Osceola Refetoff, Kate Register, Gay Summer Rick, Shawn K. Riley, Lisa Rosel, Karrie Ross, Catherine Ruane, Seda Saar, Jill Shanbrom, Yin Sheng, Joan Scheibel, Wendy Smith, Shyun Song, Caryl St. Ama, Jill Sykes, Mark Tovar, Katie Van Horne, Christine Weir, Tracey Weiss, Gina Yu

Inkspot Member Colleen Kelly has a 

Cast Bronze piece called "The Persistence of Growth, ll" 

included in this exhibition

May 9 - June 8, 2015

Porch Gallery Ojai & Ojai Art Center

Spread between the exhibition spaces at Porch Gallery Ojai and The Ojai Art Center the show will feature 70 pieces of work by 54 artists. In addition to the gallery venues, three commissioned sculptures will be installed in and around Ojai by artistsKuBo (Besant Hill School), Sonja Schenk (Farmer and the Cook) and Alberto Bevacqua (Porch Gallery Ojai).