Spotlight Artist

Cheryl Kelley

West
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

The automobile represents power, freedom, and fun, combining phallic thrust and feminine curves. Iconic images of classic cars reveal texture and sensuality. Luminous and reflective, the surface of a car becomes a view into another world. Images caught and revealed in smooth shiny metal draw our attention to a realm of fantasy, revealing the depths of the world. Using familiar images, such as a 58 Chevy or a 59 Edsel , these paintings evoke a sense of wonder and reverie.

This collection emphasizes the play of light, a shimmering luminescence amplified in metallic splendor, guiding our vision to the sublime. The ordinary becomes extraordinary. The mundane becomes the archetypal, the platonic world of the forms.

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