About this Artist
Dallas native Kelly Porter studied printmaking and philosophy at the Kansas City Art Institute and earned an MFA degree in Fine Arts from the State University of New York in Buffalo. Her intuitive oil paintings and mixed media works on paper are energized by bold shapes, repetitive patterns, and gestural lines. Subjects are informed by life at the microscopic level, music and time-based mark-making, scientific experiment, and botanical cultivation. In 2006, Porter was awarded "Best Visual Artist" by Kansas City Magazine.
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Born: February 24, 1974
Education:
1999 Master of Fine Arts, with concentration in printmaking and philosophy, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, with concentration in printmaking and philosophy, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
1995 Summer Program, with concentration in film production and editing, North Lake College, Dallas, Texas
1994 Independent Study Abroad, with concentration in visual art and writing (traveled abroad for 1 year in Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Belize, and Costa Rica)
Credit Kansas City Art Institute, Visual Art and Writing Project
Exhibitions:
2007 CADD Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Inaugural Art Fair, Three Three Three First Avenue, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2007 Kelly Porter: The Inauguration of Kind Aspects, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2007 Here and Now: Kansas City Regional Prints, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2006 Works on Paper, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2006 McNay Print Fair, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2006 Kelly Porter: New Works, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2005 In Collaboration, Jocsylin Himes and Kelly Porter, Blue Gallery Kansas City, Missouri
2004 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 Flourish, Jenny Becker and Kelly Porter, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2004 Works on Paper, art fair, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
2004 Art Chicago, art fair, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (Valley House Gallery)
2003 Beaux Arts Ball, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
2003 Kelly Porter Engel: Etudes, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 Big Orbit 10th Anniversary & Commemorating New York State Non-Profit, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2002 Beyond the Lines: Maura Cluthe & Kelly Engel, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2002 Abstraction, McLaren Markowitz Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
2001 New Works by Kelly Engel, Solo Exhibition, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 American Century, Corporate Permanent Collection, the Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 Prints and Plants, Group Exhibition, The Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 Prints & The Lawrence Lithography Workshop, The Untitled Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, (Morgan Gallery, Kansas City)
2000 Grand Opening, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, curator Kelly Kuhn
2000 Opening Exhibition, Aardvark Gallery, curator Elisa Hughey de Orbe, Ellicottville, New York
1999 MFA Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, curator Al Harris
1999 The Privileged Instant, Solo Exhibition, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1998 A Common Temporal, Solo Exhibition, Capen Gallery, Amherst, New York, curator Robert Bertholf
1998 Art Transitions, Group Exhibition, U.B. Art Gallery, curator Janice Nagel
1997 Reverie - An Installation of Aversion, Thesis Exhibition, Printmaking Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute
1997 Ephemeral, Solo Exhibition, the Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, curator Leo Esquivel
1997 Generation X-Pose, Group Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. Art Gallery
1997 A Collection of Printmaking, Group Exhibition, Carnegie Art Center, Cheektowaga, NY
1996 Sexual Identities, Group Exhibition, Curator China Marx, Painting Gallery, K.C.A.I., Missouri
1996 Donna Danger, Coalition of Women Artists for minority activity in the art world, performance pieces
1994-1997 K.C.A.I.’s Representatives, Traveling Exhibition throughout U.S., curator Warren Rosser
1994 Rollers, Group Exhibition, Irving Amphitheater, video & sound installation, Kansas City, Missouri
1994 Artists' Books, Group Exhibition, the Kemper Gallery of Modern Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Awards and Honors:
1995-1996 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, DEAN’S LIST, Top Academic Achievement
1997-1999 State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, Graduate School Full Tuition Scholarship Award
1997 State University of New York, Buffalo, Teaching Fellowship award, Foundations Drawing
1998-1999 State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, Graduate School Full Tuition Scholarship Award
1998 State University of New York, Buffalo, Teaching Fellowship award, Visual Studies
1998 State University of New York, Buffalo, Teaching Fellowship award, Surface Development
1999 Mark Diamond Grant, Art Grant Award, New York State
1999 State University of New York, Buffalo, Teaching Fellowship award, Printmaking
Literature:
Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri, March 2007
Spaces, Kansas City Star magazine, Kansas City, Missouri, January 2007
“Best of,” KC Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri, 2006 (Kelly Porter voted Best Visual Artist in Kansas City by the readers of KC Magazine)
Colorado Homes, Mount Morris, Illinois, March 2006
Southern Accents, magazine, Birmingham, Alabama, Jan/Feb 2006
Metropolitan Home, New York City, New York, January 2006
KC Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri, 2005
“Wall’s Treats,” HFN, Fairchild Publications, New York City, New York, 2005, pages 10 and 11
Dallas Design Guide, Dallas, Texas, 2005
Interior Design, New York, New York, 2005
Women’s Wear Daily, Fairchild Publications, New York, New York, August 16, 2005
People Newspapers, Dallas, Texas, June 2, 2005
“Wall or Art?” D Home Magazine, Dallas, Texas, June 2005
50th Anniversary Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas, March 5 – 27, 2004, color illustration page 25.
“31 Under 30,” Southwest Art Magazine, magazine, Houston, Texas, 2004
“Three at Morgan, Prints & Installation,” Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri, 2002
“Becoming Paintings – Depicting Process,” Review Magazine, Kansas City, Missouri, 2002
“Exhibition Illustrates Causes & Effects,” Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri, 2002
Teaching:
2004 The Lawrence Lithography Workshop, Curatorial Assistance, Artist Correspondence
2003 Kansas City Art Institute, Visiting Artist (March), Painting/Printmaking Department
2003 Kansas City Art Institute, Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, Painting/Printmaking Department
2002 Kansas City Art Institute, Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, Painting/Printmaking Department
2001-2003 Kansas City Art Institute, Instructor, Continuing Education/Special Programs
2001 Kansas City Art Institute, Instructor, Art from Imagination
2001 Kansas City Art Institute, Instructor, Extend, Grow, Modify - Drawing from Intuition
2000 Art by the River, Instructor, Printmaking
Professional:
2007 Southern Graphics Printmaking Conference, Panelist and Steering Committee
2005 Founder and Co-Owner, Porter Teleo L.L.C., Designing, Manufacturing and Wholesaling
2001 Speck Magazine: the Midwest Magazine for Art & Culture, Creative Director
Collections:
Mediflex, Corporate Permanent Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Nodaway Valley Bank, Maryville, Missouri
Poetry and Rare Books Library, Amherst, New York
UtiliCorp, Kansas City, Missouri
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