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Gina Kelly has been photographing her circle of family and friends for over 15 years. Her photos have been shown in galleries nationwide including the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University, the Berkeley Arts Center, and the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery. She is a frequent contributor to numerous publications including Shots magazine, Hope magazine, Ascent, and The Sun. Gina is a native mid-westerner and currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“There is an elusive sense of interrupted narrative to (her
photos) - as if one has opened a book somewhere in the middle, without knowing
the rest of the story. And it is not an accident. She achieves this effect
again and again in her pictures. While they are usually somewhat
portrait-like at first blush, they seem to step directly into an unsettling
dream-like level of metaphor… The innocence of her life and work are cut with
darker references, which gives the pictures she makes an exceptional power.
Her pictures are beautiful and in that fact is one of art’s great joys - she
transforms that which was hard, into something that is now good. But, perhaps
my favorite thing about her images is that they always leave me wanting,
needing, to see more.”
-Jock Sturges-
“Gina’s images somehow tap into that frequency when the
reality escapes its daily narrative and becomes marginal to anything we
understand. A portrait of a small girl is much more than that. She appears as
though she might transform herself on a whim. Nothing appears staged yet
something is off. A very nice quality to find in images of the familiar.”
-Gordon Stettinius-
“Gina Kelly’s photos don’t let you off easy. Full of
disturbing and enigmatic images, her work pulls your eyes into the frame and
then make you wonder with real anxiety what lies just beyond the camera’s
gaze.”
-The Sonoma County Independent-
“Gina Kelly's photographs have the remarkable power of
presenting a perfect distillation of a particular moment of time. They're haunting,
evocative, and they emote a special rapport with her subjects. Gina offers a very
personal glimpse into her private world.”
-Larry Schwarm-
Photo by Russell Joslin