Keltie Ferris
Blue Hour
Long Lake Estates
Keltie Ferris was born in Kentucky in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2006.
Ferris is known for large-scale canvases covered with layers of spray paint and hand-painted geometric fields. His pixilated backgrounds and atmospheric foregrounds create perceptual depth that allows for multidimensional readings of his work. Characterized by a continuously expanding investigation into painting, his practice considers a multiplanar site for constructed light and shifting space. In his ongoing series of body prints, Ferris uses his own body like a brush, covering it with natural oils and pigments and pressing it against a canvas, to literalize the relationship of an artists’ identity to the work that he or she produces.
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