About

Kellie Lehr is a visual artist working between painting and sculpture. She uses raw canvas as both surface and structure, folding, staining, inking, and reframing the material to explore memory, transformation, and material presence. Her practice centers on abstract painting and soft sculpture, extending painting into dimensional wall forms that hold traces of time and touch.

Her work draws from Supports/Surfaces, Color Field painting, textile traditions, and feminist performance, approaching painting as both ritual and material inquiry. Lehr has exhibited nationally at museums, universities, and galleries including The Painting Center (NYC), MASS MoCA, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. She has been recognized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and is an upcoming artist-in-residence and fellow at MASS MoCA.