Kate Kelton

When painting, headdresses and crowns deify Kate Kelton’s subjects. She uplifts the Unsung Sheroes & Heroes, Patriarchy Smashers, Warrior Survivors, Silence Breakers, Philosophers, Truth-Tellers, Whistle Blowers and Thought Giants of all stripes. She paints her portraits cloaked in the garb of statues Ladislav Šaloun sculpted onto the train station that her great-grandfather, Josef Fanta, designed for Prague in 1901 - 1909.

Apotheosis through a reclaimed, reapplied Art Nouveau.

Sampling her own lineage, she transforms a historical body of work, itself a thing of lasting beauty; exchanging granite for graphite, plaster for paint. In Photoshop, she first combines the desaturated faces she's found, sourced or shot of her chosen subjects, with the black and white photos from her family and friends, of the statues in situ. Then she uses graphite, inks and acrylic paints and glazes to create the works on panel or canvas, literally uplifting and elevating her battle-weary subjects to the highest reach of architectural strata.
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'Ancient and distant godlike beings, surveying a dying empire, trade places with the fresh blood of her subjects. The work presents a tactility against the digitized space, and represents a taking, an acquisit...

Etobicoke School For The Arts, Summa Cum Laude

Ryerson Polytechnic University, Film, Cum Laude

Las Vegas, USA: Gallery 30 South's "Phoenix" Solo Show, 2023.

San Diego, USA: Mesa College Art Gallery's "Perceive Me" Group Show, 2023.

LA, USA: ArtBarLA's "Pieces of a Dream" Group Show, 2022.

Zurich, Switzerland: Kunsthaus Zurich’s “The Room Moves At The Same Speed As The Clouds” Group Show, 2022.

Vancouver, CANADA: Vancouver Art Gallery’s “Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom; The Instructions of Yoko Ono And The Art Of John And Yoko” Group Show, 2022.

San Diego, USA: Mesa College Art Gallery’s "Perceive Me" Group Show, 2022.

Lancaster, USA: MOAH Cedar’s “Perceive Me” Group Show, 2021.

Camarillo, USA: Studio Channel Islands’ “Perceive Me” Group Show, 2021.

Mesa, USA: Mesa Community College’s “Perceive Me” Group Show, 2021.

Newport Beach, USA: Coastline Community College’s “Perceive Me” Group Show, 2021.

LA, USA: Sloan Fine Art’s “2020: Our Vision. Our Voices.” Group Show, 2020.

Porto, Portugal: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Yoko Ono: The Learning Garden of Freedom” Group Show, 2020.

LA, CA: Skirball Cultural Center’s “LA Times Presents Chasing Cosby Live,” Solo artist, 2020.

Calgary, CANADA: Contempo Calgary’s “Yoko Ono: Growing Freedom; The Instructions of Yoko Ono And The Art Of John A...