Red Clay 3

flashe, acrylic and steel on panel

14 x 11 inches

Courtesy of The Artist

Special thanks to the artist for this 100% donation

Maryland-based artist, Elliot Keely, works as a full-time staff member at Baltimore Jewelry Center, an educational nonprofit building a vibrant creative community for the study and practice of metalsmithing and art jewelry. Artists from BJC, including Elliot, exhibited work at VisArts last fall and winter in A Dream Outside My Body. This exhibition applied jewelry-thinking to mediums outside of metals and jewelry and demonstrated how multi-dimensional artists are. Elliot's approach for the work in this show was welding as painting, cutting colorful shapes in metal then welding the shapes together to create graphic, contemporary compositions.

"I am an artist and metalsmith from North Carolina, currently based in Baltimore. With formal training in metalsmithing, my practice operates across metal, drawing, and painting and is rooted in material exploration, craft, and process. Through the combination of traditional metalsmithing techniques and experimental methodologies, my work examines memory, personal narrative, natural phenomena, and perception."