About

Kellie Lehr is a visual artist working at the intersection of painting and sculpture, known for her use of raw canvas as both surface and structure. Through a refined process of folding, staining, inking, and reframing, her work explores memory, transformation, and materiality, yielding soft sculptural wall forms, works on paper, artist books, and abstract paintings that hold traces of time and touch. Drawing from Supports/Surfaces, Color Field painting, textile traditions, and feminist performance, Lehr approaches painting as both ritual and material inquiry. Her work has been exhibited nationally at museums, universities, and galleries including The Painting Center (NYC), MASS MoCA, and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, and she has been recognized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts.