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About Kelly Newcomer Art
Peace with machines
Creativity and the creative spirit of the universe
Based in Minneapolis
All of this work is inspired by visions of technology, humans and mother earth living in harmony, or as legendary poet Richard Brautigan said in 1967, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace."
Based in Minneapolis
Creativity and the creative spirit of the universe
Based in Minneapolis
Based in Minneapolis since 2004, some other places she has lived and exhibited include: Eugene, Oregon; San Francisco, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Roswell, New Mexico; and St. Louis, Missouri.
Creativity and the creative spirit of the universe
Creativity and the creative spirit of the universe
Creativity and the creative spirit of the universe
Besides making paintings, booklets, ceramics, and digital art, Kelly has been fortunate to partake in the meaningful creative work of the process of birth, life and aging, being a caregiver to family with autism and Alzheimers.
Bio and Artist Statement
Bio
Kelly Newcomer Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, BA Cultural Studies. As an artist, Newcomer’s work has been shown in galleries and museums including Minneapolis, Berlin, Brooklyn, Seattle and more. She received the Roswell Artist in Residence award. She has served as a non-profit board member for The Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, OR. As a commercial illustrator, Kelly Newcomer has licensed work for magazines and products. As a designer, her design clients include Kalpulli KetzalCoatlicue (annual events posters in multiple languages, English, Spanish and Nahuatl) and Healing Minnesota Stories (layouts for events in the Bearing Witness to Genocide and Racism series). As a caregiver, she has training in helping people who are autistic and who have Alzheimer’s.
Artist Statement
Kelly Newcomer draws inspiration from emotional fantasies that humans create with their machines. Her colorful, painterly works on paper and her ceramic figures are inspired by the non-dystopian potential of our shared future on earth. Her work is influenced by theorist Donna Haraway, “Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.” (The Cyborg Manifesto, 1984). Based in Minneapolis, Kelly Newcomer has exhibited widely and also licenses her work as a commercial illustrator.
