ABOUT GRAYCE

As an artist, Kellam feels the need to create meaning from her life, and the absurdity of the world. Sometimes her own existence leaves her in a state of nervousness. Kellam reflects anxieties that surround the human condition, one's self, and one’s relation to the world. Through sculpture Kellam explores her anxieties and alter ego through the use of repetition, reduction, and abstraction. She believes that art is not the piece itself but the moment the viewer meets the work. The intrinsic value in her art is found during the process of creation. The experience of creating the artwork and exploring materials and techniques. 

 

 Kellam’s process includes art created in a labor-intensive manner. Activities like mold making, blacksmithing, and woodworking require meticulous attention and repetition. She extracts trauma and personal growth from her own history and background as a foundation to build upon and create meaning. Art activism appears frequently in her work and is executed with rich concepts and subtle details. She uses her work as a social commentary in the hope to simulate empathy.  Each process is vital to the production of her work and conceptual aspects. Her processes of research include but are not limited to, research, performance, and/ or writing literature. Therefore, elements of performance, feminism, and literature are recurring themes in Kellam’s practice, governed by her choice of media, materials, concept, context, intention, form, and technique. Failure and error are key to Kellam’s creative and decision-making process and are drawn upon for inspiration. She is interested in the space between private and public and is currently creating spaces that feature performance art. She uses performance art to explore the space. Her performances respond to physical objects or sculptures, and the physical objects act as residual elements of her performance.