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Artist Portfolios

Richard Kelley

In my painting and drawing, I want a sense of passion, life connectedness and, above all, “Magic.”

 

By passion I mean simply energy and intensity or vigor. The movement of the colors and forms should be energetic and continuous, like life itself.

 

In regard to life connectedness, I find myself moving toward an art that is less abstract in terms of total emphasis, with reference always to concrete subject matter.

 

Lastly, “Magic” is the hardest element to define because various artists have captured it in so many different ways, but for me, “Magic” is essentially “unpredictability” – I want my colors and objects and compositions to be unpredictable, but once the viewer has taken them in, to make prefect sense.

 

Beyond this, I feel that critical room should be left for viewers to make their own interpretations.

 

                                                                                         

   

"Apartment Tales"

Oil on canvas

49 1/2" x 57"

Pending

 

"To and Fro"

Oil on canvas

56" x 44"

Pending

   

"May This House Be Safe From Tigers"

Oil on canvas

51" x 40 1/2"

"Ascending Houses"

Oil on canvas

43 3/4 " x 33 1/4"

Available for Purchase

   

"Beneath the Castle"

Oil on canvas

40 3/8" x 32 1/4"

Available for Purchase

"Holding On"

Oil on canvas

48 3/8" x 37 1/8"

Available for Purchase

   

"Burrowing In"

Oil on canvas

27" x 48 3/8"

Available for Purchase

"Cradle of Civilization"

Oil on canvas

47" x 72 1/4"

   

"Flooded Houses"

Oil on canvas

48" x 72"

Available for Purchase

"Meandering River"

Oil on canvas

29" x 60"

Available for Purchase

   

"Living With Too Much Structure"

Oil on canvas

44" x 34"

Available for Purchase

"Reflections"

Oil on canvas

41" x 40"

Available for Purchase

 

"Elan Vitale I"

Oil on canvas

54" x 36"

Available for Purchase

"Elan Vitale III"

Acrylic on canvas

56" x 39 1/2"

 

"Networking"

Oil on canvas

59" x 65 1/4"

Available for Purchase

"Monument for Our Times"

Oil on canvas

Available for Purchase

 

"On Our Own"

Oil on canvas

24" x 36"

Available for Purchase

"River of Life"

Oil on canvas

32" x 42 1/2"

Available for Purchase

 

"Ship Graveyard"

Oil on canvas

45" x 44"

Available for Purchase

"The Sinking City'

Oil on canvas

40" x 30"

Available for Purchase

 

"Visiting the Ruins"

Oil on canvas

Available for Purchase

"Thrusting Houses"

Oil on canvas

34" x 46"

Available for Purchase

 

"Hovering Structures"

Oil on canvas

72" x 53"

Available for Purchase

"Homage to the Kurds", ca. 1984

Oil on canvas

72" x 46"

Available for Purchase

 

"Ascending Street"

Pastel and acrylic inks on paper

15" x 11 1/2"

 

"Networking"

Pastel and acrylic inks on paper

15 3/4" x 18"

 

 

"Landscape in the Sun"

Cray-pas on paper

4" x 7"

Available for Purchase

"Big Cheese - An Era of Hegemony"

Pastel on paper

11 3/4 " x 17 1/2"

Available for Purchase

 

"Sentinels"

Pastel and acrylics on paper - framed

20 3/4" x 8 7/8"

Available for Purchase

"When it Rains it Pours"

Pastel and acrylics on paper - framed

18" x 8"

Available for Purchase

 

"The Sinking City"

Pastel and acrylic inks on paper

16" x 12"

Available for Purchase

"Ascending Houses"

Pastel and acrylic inks on paper

12 3/4" x 16"

Available for Purchase

   

"The Safe Harbor"
Cray-pas on paper

11" x 14"

Available for Purchase

 

"Above Red Waters"

Oil on canvas

30" x 30"

Available for Purchase

 

   

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