Kathy Kelley
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Houston, MFA
WASH House, R105
936. 294. 4416
kas045@shsu.edu
Teaching Area: WASH [Workshop in Art Studio + History]

Kelley received her MFA from the University of Houston in 2006. Since then, Kelley has been expanding her body of work that reanimates, repurposes objects of urban refuse. She is drawn to the symbolic and formal elements of the decay of caste off urban waste, specifically the way in which an object has been altered by its mere existence. So she collects these materials. She holds onto them for a while. Cogitates. Writes. Eventually the formal and symbolic elements of the materials and her current research meld and then she makes, assembles and revalues these materials into sculptural constructs.

Kelley is the founding president of BOX 13 ArtSpace, an experimental nonprofit art space in Houston. Kelley has been selected for numerous solo exhibition, most recently, Art League Houston, (2013), Darke Gallery (2011), Women and Their Work (2010), she participated in the Texas Biennial (2009+2011), is a recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Houston Arts Alliance, recent artist in residence at I-Park and Darke Gallery, has unveiled installations in Austin (Texas Biennial), Houston (BBAP) and Connecticut. Additionally, Kelley has taught foundation courses to art/design students at the UH and SHSU, as well as interactive media at the Art Institute of Houston.