DVAA Member since january 2017
Kit Donnelly
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About:
Kit Donnelly is a painter and printmaker working in South Jersey. Her work has been shown in many different venues throughout Vermont, parts of New England, Philadelphia and Baltimore. She has have received several awards for her work during her thirty years in Vermont. Ms. Donnelly was invited to participate in the Boston Young Contemporaries as well as speak during a group show at the Provincetown Art Association in 2014. She has taught community classes, served on a local arts board, helped start and run two local galleries, and started numerous artist critique groups. In 2014 she received an MFA from Mass Art’s Low Residency Graduate Program. In the summer of 2015, she moved from Vermont to Cape May, NJ in order to allow more time to pursue a career as a professional artist. She is a member of Davinci Art Alliance and InLiquid, Inc. in Philadelphia.
Artist Statement:
“I am constantly cultivating the connection with the environment I live in. My studio becomes a sanctuary that allows my thoughts to breathe and keeps me present and connected. I believe being a visual artist is about the courageous pursuit of the ineffable using a vocabulary of imagery. Image making is the way I relate to this crazy, intricate world we are all trying to inhabit and make sense of together.
I live and work near the ocean. I am constantly collecting shapes, designs, and colors while I walk through the specific landscape of the coastline. I bring these images back to the studio and integrate them into the story of my paintings and prints. I take note of particular things such as the sand patterns generated by the wind, the colors and shapes that appear due to different mineral deposits, and the unique, powerful forms created with the fluidity of water. In each piece I construct, I am striving to access that particular reverence for nature and the human experience.
In this current time when our obsession with technology is isolating us as human beings, I would like for the work that I do to contribute to a culture of belonging and shared experiences. I believe that when humans find awe and astonishment in nature, we can slow the inner chatter enough to feel connected within our diversity. I don’t think we are meant to struggle through this life alone. It is important to reach out; to try to communicate and understand each other despite our multitude of differences. This is the seed of my spirituality and the essence of my art practice.”
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