About

Kellie Lehr is a visual artist working between painting and sculpture. Using raw canvas as both surface and structure, she folds, stains, inks, and reframes the material to investigate transformation, memory, and the physical presence of painting. Her abstract paintings and soft sculptural wall works extend the language of painting into three-dimensional forms that record touch, time, and change.

Drawing from Supports/Surfaces, Color Field painting, textile traditions, and feminist performance, Lehr approaches painting as both material inquiry and embodied process. Her work has been 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.