COPELAND STUDIO                                


Sheer paintings


A strong focus on adaptive reuse in her practice in all mediums has led Kelsey to the use of sheer silk as a medium for communicating languages between form, texture, color, and shadow. Journaling through painting and collage with materials only immediately available, usually recycled or collected, representing the nature of the human being and the limits in life. Expressions are simply reflections of the dichotomy seen and felt in nature and society. Her work explores these interactions and how we perceive time.

Marks left on sheer feel like fossils or ghosts, stamped in time yet barely there. The top and most visible layer evolves as the subsequent layer(s) peek through. Its shadows combine and change as the viewer passes, promptin a visceral interaction. Often light is incorporated, altering the marks further just as the sun and absense of it do on every surface of Earth. The work acts as a living, breathing organism rather than a direct representation of anything else. Symbiotic entities that are almost invisible without its other parts; united as one it speaks for itself.

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”recurrence” 16x20 acrylic, coffee, collage on sheer chiffon and canvas. Raw oak frame with led light and nickel toggle switch
$1600

“inherited” 30x40 acrylic,coffee, collage on silk and canvas. aluminum frame
$1600 

“changing the course” 18x26 mirror, acrylic, coffee. silk, collage, raw walnut
$900

SOLD “subdued” 28x31 acrylic, coffee, collage on silk and canvas. Raw oak frame with led light and nickel toggle switch 
SOLD “renewal” 24x36 acrylic, coffee, leather ash, sheer chiffon, canvas 

SOLD “wait and see” 36x42 acrylic, coffee, collage, sheer voile, canvas, raw oak, led light and nickel toggle switch

“scorched earth” 2023
24x36 acrylic, coffe, silk, canvas, and oak
$1400

SOLD “flesh and bone” 36x48 acrylic, coffee, collage, sheer voile, canvas, oak, LED light

“corrosion” 2023
24 x 24 acrylic, coffee. silk, canvas, alumnium, oak
$1200

SOLD “when the dust settles”
12x12 acrylic, coffee, silk, canvas, alumnium, oak
SOLD “warm embrace” 2021
52 x 52 acrylic, coffee, collage, sheer voile, canvas, oak, lighting components
“Neither here nor there” 2021
27 x 27 acrylic, coffee, collage, sheer voile, canvas, oak, lighting components
available at CKS Collective
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