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Kyle Pellet
Bay Area artist Kyle Pellet tells us about his recurring characters, non-visual influences, and emotional textures in his paint.
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I don?t think there?s a single story for each character. I think they?re more like puppets, or toys. ... or costumes for different plays, where the drawing or painting is the stage for the play. The viewer is the playwright, I just supply the actors, costumes, and stages.
About the Artist
San Jose-based artist Kyle Pellet (b. 1982) creates small scale drawings to incubate narratives of intimacy, discomfort, and discovery. Inspired by pop-culture, multimedia ephemera, and fine art, Kyle's paintings express liquid narratives by way of rhythmic arrangements in color, harmony, texture, value, shape, form, and frequency. Kyle's work is a high contrast playground of mutating perspectives, pulsating and populated with expressive figures who persist on fluid mounds, shards, and clumps of graphic circumstance.
News and Notables
Solo Exhibition, Use Your Delusion I, Black Stamp Studios, 2023
Artist in Residence, Meta Open Arts, 2019
Featured Artist, Class Set, Volume III, 2019