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Artist Statement

"A self-taught artist, Kreg David Kelley won his first art award at the age of 12 with the Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards Program for a drawing entitled "Holocaust." Throughout his teenage years he experimented in different artistic mediums, but it wasn't until 2004 that his art became more of a full-on hobby. Aside from abstraction and 3D works on canvas, he utilizes damaged antique engravings and lithographs from the 18th & 19th century into his works. From February until April of 2006, he had his first solo show in collaboration with David Mamet's Victorian lesbian comedy,'Boston Marriage'- a production by Ganymede Arts (formerly the Actors' Theatre of Washington): all 15 pieces sold. Several of his works hang in a Gerry Garvin restaurant on Sunset Boulevard & he participated in a group show in NYC featuring works by Yoko Ono. He has donated pieces to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) National Dinner, Whitman Walker Clinic's Art for Life, and Georgetown Hospital's/Four Season's Georgetown Jingle. Via eBAY, he has sold works to clients in many countries across the world including Canada, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Australia, Mexico, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, & the United Kingdom. His current showing is the 17th Street Cafe, featuring over a dozen pieces...www.cafe17.net...and is currently showing at DC's ARTOMATIC-www.Artomatic.org (May-June 2008). He also volunteers as visual art's curator for Ganymede Arts, a local GBLT theater company. Having moved from Connecticut to attend the George Washington University, he has been living in D.C. since 2000 and is the curator for a fine art gallery in Georgetown specializing in original works on paper by 19th & 20th century masters."

"...An ingenious touch is provided by a series of paintings hanging on the set and on the theater walls. The subject matter, all portraits of women, provides an early tip-off to the play's Sapphic theme. And artist Kreg Kelley has created a perfect modernist look, recalling Matisse and especially Picasso's famous portrait of Gertrude Stein..."

-Celia Wren, Washington Post, February 21, 2006

"...the Source Theatre ...has never looked better. Not only do painter Kreg Kelley's modernist looking portraits exclusively of women decorate the set, but they adorn the house as well. The theatre's interior has been well scrubbed and painted, while outside, a new brightly lit marquee twinkles 'Boston Marriage'..."

-Patrick Folliard, The Washington Blade, March 3, 2006