To look upon artist Daniel Kelly's work is to engage in a study of dimensions and a test of one's own visual perception. Blurring the lines between traditional notions of painting, print and sculpture, Kelly continually challenges and delights viewers with his use of unconventional materials and forms.
Based in Kyoto for over 35 years, Kelly is an American painter and printmaker who has received international acclaim for his innovative techniques to create bold imagery. Rather than painting on conventional flat canvases, Kelly builds the medium himself, sculpting natural materials — such as fibrous Nepalese paper and textured tatami and bamboo matting — onto wood panels that are then hardened with polyvinyl glue. The resulting paintings, better described as wall sculptures, literally project out into one's visual space.
His prints, equally as layered and dimensional, incorporate lithography and woodblock on textured paper, along with collage attachments of pages from Edo Period books involving a process called chine-colle.
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