[to be titled], 2014Keltie Ferris was born in Louisville, KY in 1977 earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2004 and an MFA from Yale University in 2006. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Ferris is known for large paintings that lap, layer upon layer, into glimmering pictorial spaces. She is a natural born colorist and her surfaces, while densely layered, rarely feel labored.
Ferris has received grants from the Rema Mann Hort Foundation (2006), Jacob Javits Fellowship (2005) and the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting at the Yale School of Art (2005).
http://www.simoneleigh.com/ (born in Chicago, lives and works in Brooklyn) Caribbean artist Simone Leigh’s ceramic sculptures draw parallels between the history of colonialism […]
Deborah Kass, born 1952 and received her BFA in Painting at Carnegie Mellon University, and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her […]