Artist Resume

BIOGRAPHY

Kelly Slater

Born Pittsburgh, PA on March 6, 1959.  Currently lives and works in Saugus, Massachusetts.

Kellyslaterart13@gmail.com|www.kellyslaterart.com|617-529-0181

Kelly Slater is a self-taught artist specializing in expressionistic figurative abstracts of landscapes and trees.

EDUCATION

Studied under: JoAhn Han, Liz Hough, Selma Bromberg, Jim Falck, Sylvia Lopez Chavez, and Linda Hoetink.

EXHIBITS

  • 2023, “A Closer Look at Trees:  Old Growth from the Northern Berkshires to the North Shore,” solo exhibit, Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA.
  • 2023, “20 Years on the Edge,” 20th anniversary group show, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2023, “Women in Print,” four-woman show at The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2022, “Good Tidings,” group holiday exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2022, Untitled December group exhibit, Future Lab[s] Gallery, North Adams, MA.
  • 2022, “Lines Connecting Lines,” group poetry and art exhibit, Urban Media Gallery, Malden, MA.
  • 2022, “Ecology,” open members exhibit, Silver Center, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH.
  • 2022, “Still Friends,” invitational exhibit, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2022, Untitled inaugural group exhibit, Future Lab(s), North Adams, MA.
  • 2022, “Lexington Trees Tell Our History,”two-woman exhibit, Lexington Community Center, Lexington, MA.
  • 2021, “Elements,” holiday exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2021, “Friend Zoned,” invitational exhibit, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2021, “Reimagine,” virtual exhibit, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA.
  • 2021, “Priority Prints:  Members Open Small Works,” Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, Poultney, VT.
  • 2020-2021, “Members’ Open: Small Works,” group exhibit, Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
  • 2020-2021, “Small Works Show,” group exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2020, “At Nature’s Pace” two-woman exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2020, “A Portrait of Breakheart in Winter,” solo exhibit, Breakheart Reservation, Christopher Dunne Visitor Center, Saugus, MA.
  • 2020, “2020 Season Preview Show,” group exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2019, “Small Works Show,” group exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2019, “Press and Release:  Open Members Exhibition,” group exhibit, Chester Gallery of Art at New England, Henniker, NH.
  • 2019, “Friends With,” invitational group exhibit, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2019, “A Celebration of Nature,” solo exhibit at the U.U. Church of Greater Lynn, Swampscott, MA.
  • 2018, “Small Works Show,” group exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2018, “12 x 12,” members’ group exhibit and silent auction at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.
  • 2018, “East Boston:  Past and Present,” juried group exhibit, Boston East Art Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2018, “5th National Show,” juried group exhibit, Monotype Guild of New England (MGNE), Art Complex, Duxbury, MA.
  • 2018, “Impressions III,” juried group print show, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA.
  • 2018, 2017 & 2016, “Recent Works and Berta Golahny Awards,” juried group exhibit, CCAE.
  • 2017, “Friends” invitational group exhibit, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2017, “Yellow,” invitational group exhibit, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA
  • 2017, “Under Pressure,” juried group exhibit, Blacksmith House Printmakers, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2016, “Animal Farm,” invitational group exhibit, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2015, “Unique Impressions V,” MGNE members group exhibit at Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA.
  • 2014, “Direct, Indirect,” juried group exhibit, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2014, “On the Edge,” juried group exhibit, MGNE, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA.
  • 2013, “Mixed Media,” juried group exhibit, Lynn Arts, Lynn Museum, Lynn, MA.
  • 2013, “50-100-150,” juried group exhibit, Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2012, “Boston Neighborhood Art Exhibit,” juried group exhibit, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA.
  • 2012, “Control, Release, Transform,” three-person exhibit at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2023 recipient of Lynn Cultural Council grant.  2022, 2021 and 2020 recipient of Saugus Cultural Council grants. 2022 recipient Collective Futures Fund Sustaining Practice Grant.  2016 winner of Berta Golahny Award, Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2023 helped coordinate and install student exhibit at Lynn Museum and co-taught three two-part workshops on tree depiction and tree natural science.
  • 2021 residency at Moose Track Art Center, Franconia, NH.
  • 2021-2018 improvisational printmaking instructor at Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE)
  • 2020 residency, free printmaking workshop and solo exhibit at Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, MA.
  • 2019 free printmaking workshops at Field Farm, Williamstown, MA and Bascom Lodge, Adams, MA.
  • 2019 and 2018 artist residencies at the Trustees of Reservations Field Farm, Williamstown, MA.
  • 2019 improvisational printmaking instructor at Carlton Willard Village, Bedford, MA.
  • 2018 gallery talk Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, in conjunction with 5th annual MGNE exhibit.
  • 2017 artist residency at Bascom Lodge, Adams, MA.
  • 2016 trace monotype demo and workshop at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Print Media

Marjorie Kaye, ”A Strong, Dreamlike Intensity:  Kelly Slater’s Environmentally Sustainable Artwork,” Artscope, March/April 2023, 11-12.

B. Amore, “Old Growth:  From the Northern Berkshires to the North Shore,” Art New England,  July/August 2023, 57.

Video

“Museum Enrichment Series for All: July MESA featuring artist Kelly Slater,” zoom presentation (now on Facebook), Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts,  July 2023, 47 minutes, https://www.facebook.com/lynnmuseum/videos/244630461660943

“Everything but the Kitchen Sink:  Improvisational and Press-Free Printmaking During the Pandemic,” webinar, Monotype Guild of New England, virtual programming winter 2021, 1 hour and 20 minutes, https://www.facebook.com/104071733002240/videos/555109092116740/

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Founding member of Cambridge-based artist collaborative “Banter Arts.”  Member of Monotype Guild of New England and Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network (Gallery WREN), Bethlehem, NH.

COLLECTIONS

Private collections, Boston, MA; Cambridge, MA; New York, NY. Corporate collection, Boston, MA.