About Kelly Worman
Kelly Worman has been exhibiting her paintings since 2002 when receiving her Bachelors degree in Fine Arts and Education from Monmouth University. Kelly received her formal certification in Graphic Design from New York University in 2008. She has also continued her fine arts studies at the School of Visual Arts and arts administrational studies at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. She just received her Masters in Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting in May 2011 from Pratt Institute. In this time, she has taught and lectured, worked in the Soho and Chelsea art scene, participated in the creation of documentaries on artists, art directed commercials, curated a number of group and solo shows, organized artist open studio tours, exhibited her own work, and is currently running a gallery in Chelsea. Her painting is investigating time, documentation, collections, automatism, performance, and the subconscious mind.
"I look at the Unconscious Mind Calendar series as a journal or diary of sorts. I am documenting, and collecting these visual depictions of a moment in time. By arranging a logical, or glass box, set up, I give myself a somewhat controlled situation. Within these constraints, such as a fixed set of materials (acrylics, oil sticks, charcoal, graphite), a process is then set in motion that has unpredictable results, becoming a completely black box procedure. Everything is then created intuitively. The stopwatch starts, but there is no time limit. It just happens to be that each piece takes under six minutes to make. The movement is fluid across the paper. Sometimes this becomes an aggressive action. Bundles of scratchy lines can form. Other times it becomes calm and minimal. Masses of color and line interact. Sometimes these shapes are centrally located and other times continue well off the page. The body interacts with the materials on an intimate level. I work on the floor hunched over the paper, moving around the piece. Occasionally I close my eyes. I work with both hands. My hands and arms sometimes act as the brush to move paint around. If I stop moving, I consider time to be up. The finished piece acts as a record of a moment."- Kelly Worman, 2011
"I look at the Unconscious Mind Calendar series as a journal or diary of sorts. I am documenting, and collecting these visual depictions of a moment in time. By arranging a logical, or glass box, set up, I give myself a somewhat controlled situation. Within these constraints, such as a fixed set of materials (acrylics, oil sticks, charcoal, graphite), a process is then set in motion that has unpredictable results, becoming a completely black box procedure. Everything is then created intuitively. The stopwatch starts, but there is no time limit. It just happens to be that each piece takes under six minutes to make. The movement is fluid across the paper. Sometimes this becomes an aggressive action. Bundles of scratchy lines can form. Other times it becomes calm and minimal. Masses of color and line interact. Sometimes these shapes are centrally located and other times continue well off the page. The body interacts with the materials on an intimate level. I work on the floor hunched over the paper, moving around the piece. Occasionally I close my eyes. I work with both hands. My hands and arms sometimes act as the brush to move paint around. If I stop moving, I consider time to be up. The finished piece acts as a record of a moment."- Kelly Worman, 2011
