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Featured Student - Emily KaelinBurren College of Art MFA Student 2009 - 2011 "My work looks like it has been made by a woman, and I embrace and strive to take full advantage of this. I explore personal, allegorical, and critical ideas of femininity and femaleness through a dichotomy of seduction and revulsion, both conceptually and visually. Using a variety of mediums spanning from painting and photography to sculpture and installation to more recent explorations into sound, I desire to produce a highly emotional and visceral response from those who encounter my work. The materials I use range from the decoratively beautiful to the off-putting and grotesque. The obvious handmade quality of my work is of major importance, as is the Ultimately however, my work is an investigation in desire, fear and transcendence, using the female condition as a starting point, yet striving towards evoking a universally human resonance." Biography b. 1985, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Emily Kaelin is a multidisciplinary and mixed media artist currently living and working in Ireland, who has exhibited in Ireland and throughout the United States. In 2008, she received her BFA (with honors) from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, CO, and is currently pursuing her MFA degree at the Burren College of Art.
Artist Statement FemalenessHumanityBeautyAbjectionGlitterFilthVisceralEmotionallTactile
Selected Exhibitions 2011 The State of the Union, Occupy Space, Limerick, Ireland 2010 Between Brooding and Wandering, Burren College of Art Gallery, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland 2010 Landgrabber!, Burren College of Art Gallery, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare, Ireland 2010 Cakewalk, Hynes Gallery, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland
2009 Strong Women, Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, Denver, CO 2008 BOOM! 2008, Boom Nomadic Gallery, Denver, CO 2007 Mouth Amusements, Sliding Door Gallery, Denver, CO 2004 Minumentals, Chidlaw Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Links http://myfilthyexcess.blogspot.com
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