Kelsey Isaacs

b. 1994 Los Angeles, CA

Lives and works in New York, NY

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‘Kelsey Isaacs: synthesizing the layers of a plastic sun’
Artist Profile by Joel Dean in Conceptual Fine Arts

youngfreaks at Clima, Milan, IT
April 9 - May 25, 2024

Kelsey Isaacs is a painter whose practice draws out the dynamic capacities of her medium, methodologies and subject matter. Working from photographs of scenes she stages and reframes across a series of compositions, Isaacs builds a visual language of dimensionality through contemporary material means that translates across conventional lines of trompe l’oeil and abstraction. Her use of photography and the repetitive variation that fast, digital media engenders, expands the slower conventions of representational painting to articulate an internal logic within the related sets of her work.

Kelsey Isaacs (b. 1994, Los Angeles) lives and works in New York City. Solo and two-person exhibitions include: Clima, Milan, IT (forthcoming, 2024); Theta, New York (2023); Paris Internationale, presentation with Theta, Paris, FR (2022); and Chapter NY, New York (2022). Recent group exhibitions include: Tara Downs, New York (2023); Soft Opening, London (2023); Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2022); Harkawik, New York (2022); and King’s Leap, New York (2021).