Brian Kelly
Masters of Fine Arts (Printmaking), Louisiana State University
Bachelors of Fine Arts (Printmaking), Northern Illinois University
Brian Kelly's work takes the viewer on a journey into the unseen and the unknown. His work draws on influences from environments in Louisiana, Utah, New Mexico, Montana and Colorado. These representational narratives talk about specific experiences and places that are both social, personal and political in nature. Kelly adopts and personifies animal forms as specific characters within these narrative events to speak metaphorically about personal and social issues.
Following his graduate degree, Kelly studied non-toxic intaglio techniques at Frogman's Press at the University of South Dakota and plate, photoplate, and waterless lithography at Tamarind Institute of Lithography at the University of New Mexico. Kelly also spent one summer in San Paulo, Brazil at the GLATT/MAGOS Atelier.
Since 1999, Kelly has taught printmaking in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. From that time Kelly has coordinated the Marais Press and in 2004 became department head for the Department of Visual Arts, holds the rank of Associate Professor and is the Coca-Cola/BORSF Endowed Professor. He has published and been reviewed in over 27 publications, received numerous artistic and research grants in addition to curating and organizing numerous exhibitions throughout the state of Louisiana.
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