1923-2015

The compositions of the American artist Ellsworth Kelly have engaged in a dialogue with color since the ’50s in Paris, when he created monochromatic “painting - objects.”  Kelly’s sculptural forms – an approach he sees as “more real than depiction” – isolated form as “shaped canvases” that became minimalist sculptures.  His crossover philosophy includes compellingly spare drawings from nature:  “By removing the content from my work I shifted the visual reality ... to include the space around it,” Kelly says.  The artist studied at the Pratt Institute, Ecole des Beaux Arts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  His works are part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.  His goal is to impart good spirit through his love of color in life.