Fifteen Years Ago, Keltie Ferris Was Peter Halley's Student. The Artists, Now Friends, Sat Down to Talk Shop as They Debut New Work artnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From one end of the spectrum to the other, the University of Kentucky Art Museum is opening two art exhibitions that explore the use of color. Utilizing some favorites as well as rarely seen pieces from the museum collection in combination with select works on loan, “Coloring” will remind viewers just how complex color can be. And for those visitors drawn to a more stark, monotone palette, don’t miss “Template Days” featuring the work of artists Avantika Bawa and May Tveit in conversation for the first time.
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5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Rowan Renee’s new installation; Darrel Ellis’s self-portraits; Lu Yang’s digital world; Kunle Martins’s charcoal portraits; and Keltie Ferris’s exuberant abstractions.
Installation view of Rowan Renee’s “That Day, We Looked Happy” (2021), which includes images of the artist’s family and father’s grave.Credit.Rowan Renee
May 20, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
Rowan Renee
Through May 30. Five Myles, 558 St Johns Place, Brooklyn; (718) 783-4438, fivemyles.org.
Of the 44 artists featured in the 2020 exhibition “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” at MoMA PS1, most produced work while serving prison sentences. Rowan Renee was an exception. Renee, who identifies as genderqueer and uses nonbinary pronouns, is the child of a prisoner. Their father was a convicted pedophile who died in jail, and Renee’s installation, “No Spirit for Me,” consisted almost entirely of related court and police legal documents that the