Cell Project Space

Painter Roger Kelly's subject matter includes destroyed buildings, natural disasters, landfill, toxic waste dumps, war torn landscapes, obscure N.A.S.A experiments and the debris of the collapsed, overgrown and ravaged. The images are either blended together seamlessly or left rough as brutal juxtapositions so that they slip in and out of contextual and material logic.These pictorial constructs are further distanced from their source and act as material for intricate linear drawings. This process condenses and empties out all of the tonal qualities and reduces the visual information to a plan or map from which the painting can be made.