HomeBody: Main Gallery
MAY 12TH - JULY 10TH
Shelly Klein
“I’m a homebody and always have been. Home to me feels like a secret, like how it felt as a child to stay home sick from school. Nobody else gets to see the specific angle of the sun shining through the window at midday. It’s just for me. I work, I take a break, I clean, I drink coffee. I measure my time at home. This life is a dream, and these works are a dream journal. Glimpses and tidbits of the safest place. A love letter.
As a practicing fine artist and creative director of an art-based product line, k studio, I feel fortunate to have two outlets for creating images. I’ve spent some years focusing on the product side of my practice, but I feel it is important to switch gears, look inside, and see what comes to the surface when I enter the studio without the constraints of commerce at the forefront of my mind.”
1. Sunshine Day, 48” x 36”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $2800
2. Overlapping Clouds, 40” x 30”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $1950
3. If We Had a Fence, 40” x 30”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $1950
4. Sunny Day Spectacular, 40” x 30”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $1950
5. Scrap Stack with Stripes, 36” x 24”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $950
6. SOLD Windowsill Shells, 18” x 14”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $440
7. SOLD Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda, 24” x 20”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel
8. Coleus, 24” x 20”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $790
9. They Come and Go, 24” x 20”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $790
10. Scrap Stack, 24 x 20”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $850
11. Daffodils, 18” x 14”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $440
12. Sweaters, 18” x 14”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $440
13. SOLD Cards, 18”x 14”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel
14. SOLD Geraniums in Pink Pot, 36” x 24”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel
15. Studio View Summer, 48” x 36”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $2800
16. House Pallette, 48” x 36”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $2800
17. Many Moons, 24” x 20”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $790
18. Pies, 24” x 20”, collage, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $790
19. Rug, 40” x 30”, collage, acrylic, and latex on cradled panel, $1950
20. Leggy Geraniums, 48” x 36”, acrylic and latex on cradled panel, $2800
Shelly Klein
Shelly Klein lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is best known for her product line, k studio. A fine artist by training (she earned her BFA in Painting from Kendall College of Art & Design), Shelly launched k studio in 2004 to bring her artwork to a broader audience. Today, the studio produces a full line of art-based products comprising embroidered pillows, accessories, and framed art, which are sold through online and brick-and-mortar retailers around the world.
Inventories and Arrangements: Pink Gallery
MAY 12TH - JULY 10TH
Alison Owen
“Though my forms appeal to the long history of excavated ceramics, the layers of embellishment fluidly move between categories. The final objects range from functional to ephemeral, some works solidly constructed and ready for everyday use, others taped together and propped against a crutch or scaffold for display. In my “Restoration” series, I embrace flawed or damaged art objects as opportunities for repair: a broken ceramic handle is re-affixed with brightly colored Fimo or held together with conspicuous painter’s tape, highlighting these histories as the humble truth of accumulated experience and the passage of time.”
*Collages not pictured. Please email to enquire.
Alison Owen
Alison Owen is a mixed media artist working out of her studio in Poughkeepsie, NY. Owen creates vases that hover between two and three dimensions. Each vase is made from slab-rolled clay cut into shapes like a dressmaker’s pattern and pieced together to create forms that are gently dimensional yet invoke the pictorial plane. One or both sides might be decorated with a drawing, painting, or collage depicting relics, rainbows, figures, or flowers drawn in the tradition of the still lifes that so often represent vases themselves.