Odilon Redon once said, "My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.” The words of Redon are an apt description of the feeling one gets from the paintings of Keltie Ferris. Only in her case, imagine not music that places us in this ambiguous realm, but the buzzing pulse emanating from the headphones of the person seated next to us on a crowded train. Muffled, yet insistent, this illusive whisper accompanies our daily oscillations, hinting at a million private experiences. Or more abstractly, imagine the thousand frequencies that hum in the air, the metrology of electronic pulses that reverberate in the atmosphere, even in ourselves. – Cheryl Donegan, Artist

Keltie Ferris (b. 1977, Louisville, KY) lives and works in Brooklyn. She received a MFA from Yale University in New Haven, CT and a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). She has been included in exhibitions at Artspace, New Haven, CT; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; and Markus Winter, Berlin; among others. Her work has recently been discussed in L.A. Weekly. She is also the recipient of both a Jacob Javits Fellowship and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant.

Exhibitions / Images:
Keltie Ferris & Molly Larkey

More Information:
Resume [PDF]

Selected Press:
Brooks, Amra. "Must See Art." LA Weekly.

External Links:
Artist Pension Trust
Kinkead Contemporary; Los Angeles