Kelli Vance
Region: West
My works are investigations of psychological spaces where
anxieties surrounding identity and states of consciousness
are represented as moments in an unfolding narrative. These
concepts are catalysts for paintings and drawings that raise
more questions than give answers and never quite give the story
whole, as the figures are caught in moments of being in between,
before, or after. The women exist in a place where their sense
of self is being lost or found, formed or deconstructed. They are
enveloped in a journey where that loss and reconnection to the
self and to nature propels an estranged relation of the figure to
the environment she inhabits. These precarious and unstable
moments propose an examination of our own cognizance
surrounding the fear, release, engagement, and submission with
which we find and contemplate our place in the world.