Artist Resume

BIOGRAPHY

Kelly Slater

Born Pittsburgh, PA in 1959.  Currently lives and work in Saugus, Massachusetts.

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Kelly Slater is a self-taught artist.  For the past eight years she has worked towards the goal of achieving her own distinct artistic voice through the exploration of saturated color and figurative abstraction in a variety of media–including the painterly monotype; watercolors; and ink and brush paintings.  Figurative abstracts of landscapes and plants—especially trees– are her current focus.

EDUCATION

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

EXHIBITS

  • 2021, “Elements,” holiday exhibit, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2021, “Friend Zoned,” members and friends 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, “Members’ Open: Small Works,” group exhibit, Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
  • 2020, “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 at the Christopher Dunne Visitor Center, Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, MA.
  • 2019, “Paintings and Prints: A Celebration of Nature,” solo spring sanctuary exhibit at the U.U. Church of Greater Lynn, Swampscott, MA.
  • 2019-2015, “Banter Group Exhibition,” annual group show, Simon’s Coffee Shop, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2018, “Pressing Matters: Open Members Exhibit,” Monotype Guild of New England
  • (MGNE), Lynn Museum, Lynn, MA.
  • 2018, “Small Works Show,” members show, The Gallery at WREN, Bethlehem, NH.
  • 2018, “Studies and Sketches,” juried drawing exhibit, Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE), Cambridge, MA.
  • 2018, “First Annual Rumney Marsh Exhibit,” community exhibit at M. E. Graves Center, Saugus, MA.
  • 2018, “12 x 12,” members’ exhibition and silent auction at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.
  • 2018, “Nature: Inside, Out,” four person show at CCAE.  Inaugural exhibit of new small group exhibition program.  Proposed, curated and hung by the four participants.
  • 2018, “East Boston: Past and Present,” juried exhibit, Boston East Art Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2018, “5th National Show,” juried, Monotype Guild of New England, Art Complex, Duxbury, MA.
  • 2018, “Impressions III,” juried print show, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA.
  • 2018, 2017 & 2016, “Recent Works and Berta Golahny Awards,” juried all media, CCAE.
  • 2018, “Banter Arts Group Exhibition,” Eastern Bank, Brattle Sq., Cambridge, MA.
  • 2017, “Friends” invitational show, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2017, “Yellow,” invitational all media, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2017, “Wet Paint,” juried watercolor exhibition, CCAE, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2017, “Under Pressure,” juried print exhibition, Blacksmith House Printmakers, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2016, “Animal Farm,” invitational show, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2015, “Unique Impressions V,” MGNE members exhibit at Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA.
  • 2014, “Direct, Indirect,” juried print/drawing show, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2014, “On the Edge,” juried show, MGNE, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA.
  • 2014, “Abstractions,” juried exhibit, CCAE, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2013, “Mixed Media,” juried show, Lynn Arts, Lynn Museum, Lynn, MA.
  • 2013, “Friends” invitational show at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2013, “Process: Prints in Progress,” juried show, Blacksmith House Printmakers, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2013, “50-100-150,” juried pop-up show, Riverside Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2012, “Boston Neighborhood Art Exhibit,” Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston, MA.
  • 2012, “Allston/Brighton” show, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA.
  • 2012, “Creative Couples,” juried exhibit, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.
  • 2012, “Control, Release, Transform,” three-person show at Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA.

COLLECTIONS

Private collections in New York City; the Berkshires; Boston, Brookline, Rockport and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PRIZES AND GRANTS

2022, 2021 and 2020 recipient of Saugus Cultural Council grants.

2016 winner of Berta Golahny Award, Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2019 artist residency at private residence in East Orleans, MA.
  • 2019 improvisational printmaking instructor at CCAE and Carlton Willard Village, Bedford, MA.
  • 2018 gallery talk at Art Complex Museum, in conjunction with 5th annual MGNE exhibit.
  • 2018 improvisational printmaking instructor at Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE)
  • 2018 conceived, organized, and hung first annual Rumney Marsh Exhibit, in conjunction with local conservation group SAVE, at the Marleah Elizabeth Graves Center in Saugus, MA to bring attention to a local endangered ecosystem.
  • 2018 pro bono talks on increasing creativity in daily life at Bascom Lodge, Mount Greylock; and at Eastern Bank, Brattle Square, Cambridge.
  • 2018 artist residency at Field Farm, TTOR, Williamstown, MA.
  • 2018 pro bono demo/workshop on trace monotype and frottage at CCAE.
  • 2018 all-ages pro bono workshops on trace monotype at Bascom Lodge and Field Farm.
  • 2017 artist residency at private residence in East Orleans, MA.
  • 2017 artist residency at Bascom Lodge, Mount Greylock, Adams, MA.
  • 2017 class on monotype printing without a press, Artist and Craftsman, Saugus, MA.
  • 2016 pro bono demonstration of trace monotype at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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