IMAGE: Kellie Romany, In an Effort to be Held, 2016-2019, oil on ceramic, dimensions variable, Photo by Lizabeth Applewhite, Courtesy of DePaul Art Museum
Thursday, March 10, 2022 from 6–8 p.m.
Join LSU MOA for the opening reception of State of the Art: Record and watch a performance art piece entitled Can I Get a Witness by State of the Art: Record artist Kellie Romany. Click here to learn about the exhibition.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK (pictured above) The nineteenth-century anthropologist and ethnographer Felix von Luschan created a chromatic scale of 36 skin color tiles that was used to determine a person’s race in Europe and America up until the 1950s. State of the Art artist Kellie Romany stained ceramic discs with oil paint, mimicking the varying shades of skin tones based on von Luschan’s scale. Visitors will be able to touch and inspect these discs during this exhibition at LSU MOA.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Kellie Romany is an abstract painter interested in bodily representation, materiality, and the history of the painting process. Using a color palette of skin tones, Romany creates objects that act as a catalyst for discussion about human connections, femininity, and race and the systems surrounding these themes. She received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. Romany has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including museum shows at the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and DePaul Art Museum. (info via www.kellieromany.com)
State of the Art: Record is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. The national tour of State of the Art 2020 is sponsored by Bank of America with additional support from Art Bridges. This exhibition and its programming are sponsored locally by a generous grant from Art Bridges. Support also by LSU MOA Annual Exhibition Fund donors. Reception Coke products are provided by LSU Auxiliary Services.
