KELLY POPOFF
KELLY POPOFF
Artist and educator, Kelly Popoff, was born in Akron, Ohio and lives and works in Greenfield, MA. Kelly’s recent honors include: Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing 2020, The Clowes Fund Fellowship and Residency, Vermont Studio Center 2019, Millay Colony Fellow 2018, The Artist’s Resource Trust Fellowship and Residency, Vermont Studio Center 2017, The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Grant 2017, a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation 2016, Finalist Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Painting 2016. Recent solo shows include At Home with Our Histories at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, O Children at Herter Gallery, The University of Massachusetts and Rock on Doily at Augusta Savage Gallery, The University of Massachusetts. Kelly has exhibited in international group shows including shows curated by jurors such as Carter E. Foster (Curator of Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art), Richard Klein (Director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Trenton Doyle Hancock (contemporary artist), Camilo Alvarez of Samson Projects, Rachel Wolff (art critic and writer) and Deborah Rockman (contemporary artist).
American Snapshot series in Black and White
7.5 x 5.5 inches, ink and graphite on watercolor paper dipped in beeswax.
available work below
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Grandmother, American Snapshot series
Dialogues
Diptych 1-6
Ink and graphite on watercolor paper, dipped in beeswax and painted with oils - 7.5 x 11 inches - 2021
available work below
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American Snapshot red series
American Snapshot (1-100)
ink on found paper, dipped in beeswax
5.5 x 4 inches each (with some variation)
2021
NO LONGER AVAILABLE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 American Snapshot, Melhop Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, NV
2022 Truth and Lies in America, Geissler Gallery at Stoneleigh-Burnham School, Greenfield, MA2020 New Work by Kelly Popoff, Pulp Holyoke Gallery, Holyoke, MA
2020 At Home With Our Histories, Tabor Gallery, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
2019 At Home With Our Histories, June and John Alcott Gallery, The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC
2016 O Children, Herter Gallery, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2014 Rock on Doily, Augusta Savage Gallery, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2013 The Fiction of Science, Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Invisible, curated by Jill Kearney, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ (artists shown: Monica Banks, Willie Cole, Phebe Macrae Corcoran, Vasiliki Katsarou, sTo Len, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Kelly Popoff, Sandra Ramos, Gabrielle Senza, Pavel Urkiza, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Natalija Vujosevic)
2020 A Small Needful Fact, an exhibit of artists who work for social justice, curated by Natasha Becker and part of a series of online exhibitions at the Assembly Room, NYC, NY
2020 Take a Line for a Walk, on online exhibition curated by Musa Collective, Boston, MA
2019 Collage, SITE : BROOKLYN, curated by Rachel Wolff, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack, curated by elin o’Hara slavick and Olivia Huntley, Durham, NC
2018 We Grow Accustomed to the Dark, Herter Gallery, curated by Omid Shekari, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2018 Red, White and Blue, Brookline Arts Center, curated by Camilo Alvarez of Samson Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Works on Paper – 2016, The Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences, curated by Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art
2016 Open Call NNE (North-Northeast) 2016, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, curated by Richard Klein (director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Brattleboro, VT
2012 Amherst Biennial, Amherst, MA
2011 Drawing Resurfaced, Purdue University, Purdue University Gallery
2010 Third Coast National, curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock at KSpace Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
2010 Love or Something Like Love, Lexington Arts Council, Lexington, KY
2010 Withdrawn: Contemporary International Drawing Exhibition at The Drawing Room, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Drawing Discourse: an annual exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, group exhibition curated by Deborah Rockman at The University of North Carolina –Asheville’s Tucker Cooke Gallery, Asheville, NC
2008 Dialogues: A Series of Group Exhibitions, Open Forums and Panel Discussions (Painting Segment), group exhibition curated by Lain York at Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN