About

Kelly is a Bay Area artist living and working in Oakland, California. She earned a BFA in Drawing & Painting and an MFA in Studio Art in Southern California. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings, Kelly creates imagined and remembered spaces rooted in personal memory and lived experience.

Using domestic objects, architectural forms, and memories from the 18 homes she has lived in, Kelly explores family dynamics, grief, queerness, attachment, loss, identity, and place. Her work examines the home as a space where conflicting emotions can exist at once. Entrapment and belonging, change and comfort, absence and connection.