Katelyn Ledford

Katelyn Ledford is an artist living and working in Boston, Massachusetts, but born and bred in the American South. She received her MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019.

Ledford’s work is a consideration of the role of images in shaping the curated portrait of women at large and individually while also reflecting on the complex and often painful reality of what it means to be a woman and artist. She uses appropriated images sourced from historical paintings, television shows, social media, and Google fever dreams while contrasting them against improvisational symbols and shapes in order to create deconstructed portraits. The tone across her work lies in a mix of cynicism, humor, and absurdist logic— like the feeling of sucking on a sour candy, you smile through the pain and pleasure.

Ledford was featured in SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2020 in a two-person booth, “The Person- Less Portrait,” curated by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery. She has been featured in exhibitions internationally with select group exhibitions at Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY; Public Gallery, London, UK; Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA; and Plan X Art Gallery, Milan, IT.

生於美國南部。目前在波士頓生活和工作。

Katelyn Ledford 於 2019 年在羅德島設計學院獲得了繪畫碩士學位。她的作品始終反映了作為女性和藝術家需要面對何種複雜而痛苦的現實。她的母親曾為人像攝影師，這段家庭經歷也定下了Ledford的創作基調。她使用來自歷史繪畫、電視節目、社交媒體和搜尋引擎上找到的合適圖像，並將它們與即興的符號和形狀配合產生對比，以創造解構的肖像。她的作品基調混合了玩世不恭、幽默和荒謬的邏輯――就像品嘗酸味糖一般，使觀眾在痛苦和愉悅交織中微笑。

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