Kelly Rose Adams

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Kelly Rose Adams is a contemporary painter based in Toronto. Adams Completed her BFA at OCAD University in 2018 and is an alumna of the Florence off campus studies program.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Kelly Rose Adams recognizes painting as a unique opportunity to expand upon reality. Adams layers visual metaphor with realist painting practices to describe invisible psychological themes. She is interested in the collective human experience, with a focus on hidden identity and shared emotion. The process of layering the classic form of a portrait, with visual representations of the internal self, offers a more complete picture of an experience.

$1,500.00

Oil on Canvas

30x40"

This painting is not meant to be morbid, but to represent a feeling of overwhelm, stress, and anxiety. Feelings that are extremely relevant lately.
I make paintings about these feelings not to dwell on them, but to get them out and give them a physical form. Pulling these feelings out of the abstract, and into a place where they can be confronted head on.

Kelly Rose Adams

$1,500.00

Oil on canvas.

30x40"

Some of my favourite photos on my phone are the mistakenly blurry ones. They’re usually taken when someone is either off guard, not quite ready, or mid laugh.

The out-of-focus, hazy photos are usually more true to my actual memory of the moment than the posed, in-focus photos from the same night.

“Get Well” 30” x 40” Oil on Canvas is based off of one of these photos, of a good night with a sweet friend

Kelly Rose Adams