Keltie Ferris

Born:
1977
Residence:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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  • I love art by men.

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  • Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery in New York is hosting an exhibition “M\A\R\C\H” by artist Keltie Ferris that will be on view through May 6, 2017.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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BIOGRAPHY

Keltie Ferris was born in Kentucky in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include Body Prints and Paintings at the University Art Museum at SUNY Albany, New York (2016); Paintings and Body Prints at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2015); Keltie Ferris: Doomsday Boogie at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2014); Body Prints at Chapter NY, New York (2014); and Man Eaters at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City (2009-10). Her works have been included in group exhibitions at institutions, including Saatchi Gallery, London (2014); Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Texas (2014); The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2014); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2012); the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis (2010); and The Kitchen, New York (2009).  She was recently awarded the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Painting by the Academy of Arts and Letters. She is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. 

Keltie Ferris’s painting reveals a variety of techniques from several modern traditions. Her compositions include the influence of action and expressionist paintings, as well as the application of spray paint that is used in graffiti street art and airbrushing. These gestural abstractions have a soft-focus blur effect, which helps to highlight their spatial ambiguity.

 


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