San Francisco, CA
About Kellyann Gilson Lyman:
Kellyann Gilson Lyman is a contemporary design consultant and a conceptual abstract artist.
She received her B.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles in sociology and studied visual communications and graphic arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since her emergence, Kellyann Gilson has blended the concerns and methods of abstract, conceptual, appropriation art with photography and humanity to create her own unique, uplifting and engaging iconography.
Kellyann’s large-scale conceptual abstract collections reflect positively on the character of humanity.
Since her first solo show, Kellyann has exhibited in international group and solo exhibitions, articulating her vision of large scale work in public art spaces. She studies the spaces and the work in the "Museum of Modern Art":http://www.moma.org, the "Musee d'Art Moderne":http://www.mam.paris.fr/en de La Ville de Paris, as well as the Tate modern.
Selected exhibitions
- Art Education Curriculum|Strategic Art Education Vision Campaign Exhibition - San Francisco, 2012
- calistoga art center, June 7 - September 7 - Calistoga, California, 2012
- createanaccident.com PINAKOTHEK project | kellyannart.com http://lnkd.in/mRBnk5 - Greece, 2012
- chillin productions, Exhibition, Irene Hernandez curator - San Francisco, 2011
- Lisalee Smith Curator, Corporate Lobby Exhibitions (4) - San Francisco, 2011
Education
- Ecole de Beaux Art, N/A - Audit Independent Curriculum Study | Contemporary Art Program - Paris,2010
- UCSB, Post baccalaureate Visual Art & Graphic Design - Santa Barbara,1993
- UCLA, Bachelor of Arts - Los Angeles,1986
Press Accolades
- artist marketing salon review by Marie Kazalia, |http://artistmarketingsalon.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/articulating-the-vision-of-kellyannart-com-in-large-scale-corporate-lobby-spaces/. - 2011
- whopple.com Featured interview http://whopple.blogspot.com/2010/05/artist-interview-with-kellyann-gilson.html, - 2010
- artismoving blog interview http://artismoving.blogspot.com/2009/10/artist-interview-kellyann-gilson-lyman.html - 2009