Press Release - "Chroma" by Kelly Ording
Kelly Ording
”Mia Wallace”
Acrylic on canvas stretched on wood panel
60 x 60 Inches
2019
pt.2:Oakland
Chroma
Kelly Ording
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9, 2019, 12-10 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 9th at 4pm
Showing Through: December 14, 2019
info@part2gallery.com
1523b Webster St.
Oakland, CA 94612
pt. 2: Oakland is pleased to present Chroma, a solo exhibition of painting and sculpture by Kelly Ording. Through both process and subject, the artist explores the tension between seemingly opposite concepts - intuition and intention, representation and abstraction, surrender and control. By layering painted geometric patterns (often in saturated colors), over organic shapes that stem from her process of hand-dying canvas and paper surfaces, Ording plays with our natural propensity to seek the familiar in the abstract. Whether viewing the mathematical repetition of her abstract works or her atmospheric imagined landscapes, it is easy to get lost in Ordings dizzying compositions and grounding mastery of color.
Kelly Ording
”Coco”
Acrylic on dyed paper
25 x 32.5 Inches
Blonde maple frame
2019
Based in Oakland, CA, Kelly Ording has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000, with recent solo exhibitions including An Unseen World, Gilman Contemporary, Sun Valley, ID (2019), Shadows and Light, Local Language, Oakland, CA (2018), and Rotations Around the Sun, Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, CA (2018). Her public works and murals can be seen in San Francisco Arts Commission Public and Civic Art Collection, the Alameda County Collection, JP Morgan Chase Collection, and the Ellie Mae Collection. She recently returned from traveling in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia with the Bangkit/Arise Project in association with Clarion Alley Mural Project and Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Kelly currently devotes all her time to her artwork and her two children with fellow artist, Jet Martinez.
pt. 2: is a contemporary art gallery that opened its Oakland location in March of 2018 and its Los Angeles location in October of 2019. We feature monthly exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists. pt. 2: Oakland is located at 1523 b Webster Street and has open gallery hours Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Opening receptions at pt.2: are always free and open to the public. To receive a preview of the exhibition please contact info@part2gallery.com.
Kelly Ording
”Sakitari (Okinawa)”
Acrylic on paper
26 x 26 Inches
Blonde maple frame
2019