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Kelly Correll Brown - Painting / Drawing  / Craft

Kelly Correll Brown was born in Santa Monica, CA in 1978. Raised in Los Angeles, and exposed to the creative life early on through her family’s work in the motion picture industry. As entertainers and visual artists, they bred a love of the spectacular and magical in her. She traveled all over the globe as a result of her parents work and later on with her own musical projects. This has had a profound impact on her artist perspective.

She is currently living in Oakland, USA. Next to her visual art she is a singer with Black Ice and has been active as keyboardist and singer with Red Voice Choir. Earlier this year an artifact consisting of a printed work by Kelly Correll Brown and a Black Ice 7” was realized in collaboration with Enfant Terrible.

Something old and something new…

Something old and something new… is a small online exhibition of the work of Kelly Correll Brown based on a selection made by Enfant Terrible for this specific occasion.

Kelly Correll Brown works with many different materials and in a variety of techniques. Because of her background in painting and drawing, textiles, and fashion she is able to incorporate elements of all of these techniques into the process of creation. She is mostly working on various piece at the same time. That gives her the freedom to begin to build stories that can flow circularly rather than linearly.

Her work reflects a belief in the powers of whimsy, absence, fear, silence, and an ever-evolving story.

In this online exhibition are six pieces dating from 2005 to 2010. The two oldest pieces Building-Gun (2005) and  Lost without you (2007) reflects in some way the work of abstract expressionist Franz Kline. His black and white paitings from the 1950’s era spring to mind.

The oil painting Self Portrait on the Floor (2008) and the ink and graphite piece Tranny (2008) are less abstract as the two earlier works. Both have more detail and clear definable subjects.

Both works from 2010 displayed here are in a very different style. Instead of using traditional paiting and drawing techniques these pieces are created as a product of craftsmanship. Craftmanship is not fine but Germany...oh how I miss you (2010) and View from the Window (2010) are both pieces of collage art playing with the look, feel and definition of craftsmanship and fine art.

This small selection should work as an introduction and appetizer to the work and world of Kelly Correll Brown. Please enjoy these pieces.

These works are for sale. If interested please contact Enfant Terrible here…

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