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he gallery is pleased to announce the two-person exhibition of new
paintings by Keltie Ferris and new sculptures by Molly Larkey.
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. Her New York solo debut will be at SUNDAY in the Fall.
Molly Larkey playfully incorporates elements of formalist
abstraction with symbolism. Constructed from a variety of materials,
Larkey gives her sculpture a rainbow treatment of brightly coloured
paint, each rough hewn component compiling as a topsy-turvy monument,
inciting both Modernist art history and hippie psychedelia. With her
theatrical assemblages, Larkey frames these disparate ideas as
humorously dysfunctional; relating the dynamics of power with the
festivity of grass roots endeavour. - The Saatchi Gallery
Molly Larkey (b. 1971, Los Angeles) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a MFA from
Rutgers University, New Jersey and a BA from Columbia University, New
York. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Drawing Center,
New York; Samson Projects, Boston; and Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa
Monica; among others.