Self-centered
Glass and ceramic on wood. 10 x 10 x 2 in
Kelly Witmer
Kelly Witmer is a multi-disciplinary artist splitting her time between Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA. Her work is a zig-zagging path, a constant exploration of form, color, nature, history, emotion and chance, using a minimal aesthetic to explore negative and positive spaces, and how they work together. The voluptuous organic shapes are contained in decisive hard edges, occasionally revealing brushstrokes within, and depths when they overlap. These abstract forms take on personalities—they work together and interact, refusing or accepting each other.
The desert landscape plays a big role in her inspiration. The curves and slopes of the mountains and rocks, and the ever-present sun influence her abstract forms. The interpretation then represents an interior landscape within the exterior one.
She developed a fascination with transparency as a result of experimenting with glass, and has been replicating the effects with paint. The translucent shapes invoke a duality—acting as a metaphor of behavioral transparency. They can represent buried emotions or memories that sometimes come to light.