Keltie Ferris - New Now New York Tuesday, February 28, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Keltie Ferris

    American • 1977

    Brooklyn-based artist Keltie Ferris is most famous for large-scale paintings covered in layers of spray paint and hand-painted geometric fields. Ferris creates perceptual depth through a distinctive use of light and shapes. His work often gives the illusion of a pixelated landscape though it remains abstract in its final form. While spray paint is typically associated with graffiti or temporary, "on-the-go" artistic practices, Ferris harnesses its dynamism to create stable, highly intricate scenes from combinations of vibrant colors.

    He also uses his own body as a tool, covering it in oil and paint and pressing it against the canvas. He repeats this process numerous times to record his own trace as a slow but visible disappearance of the artist into the work.

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The Producer

signed, titled and dated "KELTIE FERRIS 2014 The Producer" on the reverse
oil and acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 2014.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $22,500

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New York Auction 28 February 2017