ARTIST STATEMENT
Growing up, San Francisco Bay was a haven for creativity among innovation, beautiful landscapes, and abundance of art and culture. This spurred my love of exploration, which underlies the spirit of my art practice today.
I paint about energy, memory, connection, and possibility. Works are mined visual clues and textures, the energy of place and time, thoughts and memories, and snippets of connections and conversations. I think a lot about energy and how to translate it into the work.
I find Inspiration in world travel, music, nature, science, spirituality, and symbolism. Artist influences seen in the work include Cy Twombly, Beatriz Milhazes, Mark Bradford, and Helen Frankenthaler.
My love of painting is rooted in continuous exploration of color, mark-making, process, and materials. Color is important so I custom mix all. I also use color to push tradition and play with its connections to memory, meaning, and assumptions.
My visual language is characterized by saturated color, organic drips, repeated lyrical gestures, and typographic elements. Large works on canvas are built by layering, sanding, scraping, and dripping paint and inks. A history of marks and a unique energy and rhythm find tension and interplay within each work.
BIO
Kelly Seeber is an abstract painter and photographer, born in San Francisco, now living and working in Virginia. Seeber was awarded a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Fellowship in 2017. In 2024, she held a 2nd solo exhibit with the VMFA, "Pink Light, Palaces, and Temples; In Honor of Wanderlust," and also exhibited with 2nd Street Gallery and Quirk Hotel in Charlottesville, VA. Seeber has been featured in Coastal Virginia Magazine and popular blogs such as Design Crush and The Art Hunters. Her abstracts are held in private collections throughout the United States. Seeber has an Associate of Arts and a Bachelor and Master of Science degree focused in research.