Joan Marie Kelly

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Joan Marie Kelly
Artist / Educator

Research expeditions 2011


Experimental collaboration with Monks in Chiang Khan and Bangkok It was an alternating response to the painting beginning with me working with forms that responded to the froms in the local Watt in Chiang Khan. Next the monks made a response in text into the paint. I came back again. We alternated in this way until intuitions told us to stop. Special thanks to Monk Ananda Manjusri Thero from Sri Lanka, artist collaborator in Bangkok.
An Easel Among the Flesh Pots : A review in the New York Sun, Art Critic David Cohen, New York Joan Marie Kelly, an American painter who lives and teaches in Singapore, opens a show of paintings Thursday night at New York's Blue Mountain Gallery that defy expectations. She works strictly from the motif in a realist idiom, but she is drawn to socially and economically complex intersections of humanity that range from monastic communities to the red light districts of various Asian cities. The cover painting, depicting a scene in Singapore's Little India, is titled "Zone of Contact." ...Continue Reading

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