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Kelly Reemtsen (b. 1967, Flint, Michigan) is best known for her bright and bold paintings of women carrying household tools such as chainsaws or axes. Her work often investigates the role of the modern woman, deconstructing societal perceptions of gender, power and femininity.
Reemtsen’s paintings are characterized by their thick impasto, stark white backgrounds, and anonymous figures. Reemtsen is currently based in Los Angeles.
She studied fashion design and painting atCentral Michigan University and California State University Long Beach. Reemtsen has been involved with printmaking since the 1990s, studying etching and screen-printing in workshops and with educators across the United States.Kelly Reemtsen’s work has been exhibited widely in North America and is part of the Twentieth Century Fox and AT&T corporate collections.
[…] Kelly Reemsten joined us to discuss her show Focus, which ran until November 27 at Albertz Benda Gallery. The title and the work in the show touches on many things, and in fact comes from Reemsten’s process of creating this show during which she frequently reminded herself to focus on this or that. In general her work focuses on her friends and Reemsten herself and on women’s issues and the timeline of women’s rights as they arc back toward where they once were. To learn more, listen to the complete interview. […]