About
Kellie Lehr explores how painting can hold the evidence of change without resolving its contradictions. Her abstract paintings and soft sculptural works emerge through a process of folding, staining, erasing, and rebuilding, in which earlier actions remain visible beneath later ones. Rather than seeking harmony, she creates conditions in which opposing forces remain active, held together but never fully reconciled.
Drawing from Supports/Surfaces, Color Field painting, and textile traditions, Lehr uses raw canvas as both surface and structure, allowing gravity, pressure, and time to shape the work. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at The Painting Center (NYC), MASS MoCA, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. She has received recognition from the National Museum of Women in the Arts and was an artist-in-residence and fellow at MASS MoCA in 2026.