Paul Kelly - REPERCUSSIONS

RECEPTION: Friday, May 4th 6:30-8:30pm WKP Kennedy Gallery

This Friday, join us in welcoming Paul Kelly back to North Bay, where he lived and worked with commitment to establish the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Nipissing University in 1990. Dr. Kelly taught in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Nipissing University from 1990 - 2014, and tutored many of North Bay's artists including a number of current members of the North Bay Art Association. Paul Kelly has made a lasting impact on our local artistic community.

Paul Kelly’s solo exhibition, entitled ‘Repercussions’ presents recent works which explore modern design practices through vibrant painted colour and form. The palette is refreshingly bright, and his decisive mark-making makes for a crisp series of paintings. The reception for Repercussions takes place this Friday, May 4th from 6:30-8:30pm at the WKP Kennedy Gallery. Join us for refreshments and experience Paul Kelly's new works, with a chance to speak with the artist himself, as Dr. Kelly will be present at the reception.

"Repercussions features recent artwork that considers modern design practices through fine art surfaces; representing the intersections of my professional work in visual communications, studies in theories of semiotics, and fine arts. I am retrospectively investigating the things that initially inspired me through the lens of the past 45-years with new excitement and force. For many years I have painted large 'plein-air' landscapes, using natural light to aid my understanding of form and pattern in nature, as well as studio-based figurative works that also use life to explore design. My current works come full circle; during the past year I have produced paintings, prints and drawings that weave together personal narratives and formal inquires by integrating representational and non-representational processes: large-scale still-life works of popular and domestic objects filtered through colour-field geometry and typographically-based designs that extend into abstraction.” Paul Kelly, 2018

For a full artist biography, and to read more about the exhibition, please visit www.kennedygallery.org and click on “Upcoming Shows”. This exhibition runs from May 4 – June 22, 2018.