Kellen Wright is a multi-disciplinary visual artist currently based in St. Louis, MO working in installation, drawing, photography, and publication. Her work draws from histories of landscape painting and photography to expound upon her relationship with the contemporary environment in flux over time.
Kellen's practice approaches complicated contexts of place; how histories, biases, personal experiences, ecological conditions and political borders add tangible dimension to abstract boundaries. Abstraction is a lens to queer a landscape, creating situations of speculation for viewers to poetically consider the near future of our environment. Through passive practices like walking and conversation, active research such as writing, transcription, annotation, drawing, foraging, photography, and repurposing and reuse of salvaged materials, she build archives of material that denote a relationship between a body and places of overlooked potency and resilience. Her recent work specifically complicates the binaries of urban and rural and inside and outside, taking places like backyard gardens and urban parks for subject matter.
Kellen received her B.A. in Art History and Criticism in 2022. She has exhibited throughout Missouri and Illinois.
Kellen Wright is a multi-disciplinary visual artist currently based in St. Louis, MO working in installation, drawing, photography, and publication. Her work draws from histories of landscape painting and photography to expound upon her relationship with the contemporary environment in flux over time.
Kellen's practice approaches complicated contexts of place; how histories, biases, personal experiences, ecological conditions and political borders add tangible dimension to abstract boundaries. Abstraction is a lens to queer a landscape, creating situations of speculation for viewers to poetically consider the near future of our environment. Through passive practices like walking and conversation, active research such as writing, transcription, annotation, drawing, foraging, photography, and repurposing and reuse of salvaged materials, she build archives of material that denote a relationship between a body and places of overlooked potency and resilience. Her recent work specifically complicates the binaries of urban and rural and inside and outside, taking places like backyard gardens and urban parks for subject matter.
Kellen received her B.A. in Art History and Criticism in 2022. She has exhibited throughout Missouri and Illinois.