Keltie Ferris with Tom McGlynn

Known for his mostly large-scale canvases covered with layers of spray paint and hand-painted geometric fields, Keltie Ferris’ pixilated backgrounds and atmospheric foregrounds create perceptual depth that allows for multidimensional readings of his work. Characterized by a continuously expanding investigation into painting, his practice considers a multiplanar site for constructed light and shifting space. In his ongoing series of body prints, Ferris uses his own body like a brush, covering it with natural oils and pigments and pressing it against a canvas, to literalize the relationship of an artists’ identity to the work that he or she produces. Keltie Ferris was born in Kentucky in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Artist, writer, and independent curator Tom McGlynn is based in the NYC area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian. He is the director of Beautiful Fields, an organization dedicated to socially-engaged curatorial projects, and is also currently a visiting lecturer at Parsons School of Design, The New School. McGlynn’s work is interested in the morphing of commercial signage into cyphers of phenomenal experience—minimalist, abstract arrangements of color. He holds an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from the Ramapo College of New Jersey. Tom is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.