

Katie Pell American, 1965-2019
Love and Kudzu, 2018
Pastel and charcoal on paper in mirrored plexiglass frame
56 x 44 x 1.5 in
142.2 x 111.8 x 3.8 cm
142.2 x 111.8 x 3.8 cm
Pell often used her imagination and personal commentary to express herself in her art, leaving room for interpretation and inciting a sense of mythological excitement to make everyday life go...
Pell often used her imagination and personal commentary to express herself in her art, leaving room for interpretation and inciting a sense of mythological excitement to make everyday life go beyond its borders. In this work, Pell channels the sky beyond the limit and connects with surrealist themes in a Rene Magritte fashion with themes of liminality.
"Some of us build our own mythology out of our environment, desires, and furious defiance at our genetic mediocrity. I hope my work can ignite or describe the excitement of our pointless and forgettable lives and reaffirm the value of our gorgeous desperation,” says the artist. Pell plays with the tenets of Neo-Surrealism, a revival of the Surrealism literary and artistic genre, and seeks to emulate the unconscious mind's complex and often irrational visions.
"Some of us build our own mythology out of our environment, desires, and furious defiance at our genetic mediocrity. I hope my work can ignite or describe the excitement of our pointless and forgettable lives and reaffirm the value of our gorgeous desperation,” says the artist. Pell plays with the tenets of Neo-Surrealism, a revival of the Surrealism literary and artistic genre, and seeks to emulate the unconscious mind's complex and often irrational visions.
Exhibitions
Katie Pell: Common Threads, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2019Something’s Happening: The Big Art of Katie Pell, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; curator: Catherine Walworth, 2018