North Adams Artist Kelsey Shultis Showing in London
Young Masters Invitational Exhibition 2025
By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 14, 2025
For The Love of Art History
Young Masters Invitational Exhibition 2025
Cynthia Corbett Gallery
London
January 16 to April 8
https://www.thecynthiacorbettgallery.com
North Adams based artist Kelsey Shultis has been selected to exhibit in London’s Cynthia Corbett Gallery.
Kelsey Shultis
Born 1988. USA
Kelsey Shultis creates sculptural paintings to explore and develop the parts of herself she doesn't yet know, inviting the viewer along on her journey. Her inner landscapes are frequented by abandoned houses, goddesses, moss, goats, rainbows, dark forests, demons, mermaids, rabbits, witchcraft, and her young son. Shultis's work is guided by principles rather than logic, she asks the painting to reveal itself rather than impose meaning or thought onto it. Precisely because her work is created so intuitively, the viewer's unconscious is equally affected as their eye. All her work has the immovability of landscape yet despite its stillness, hums with the same vibration of a living form.
Trekking with her through her personal inner landscapes is no light affair. While the works themselves are ostensibly suitable for a childhood nursery, Shultis's iconography radiates a haunted innocence. And because her work is so achingly personal, the viewer is prompted to draft their own inner map. What haunts me? What do I yearn to keep? What fills me with wonder? Because Shultis answers those questions with wrenching honesty in each one of her pieces, the viewer feels in kind the safety to honestly populate their own internal world.
Shultis received her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design and studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. She now lives in northwest Massachusetts with her husband, two rabbits, many houseplants, and her perfect three-year-old son.