Artist Bio

Kellianne McCarthy works with oil, acrylic, and collage on wood panels. She is known for her saturated color palette and blend of imagery, abstraction, and pattern. She uses those elements to create spaces where the concrete and surreal meet. Influences filtered into her work include the graphic design of Peter Max, the altar pieces produced during the Renaissance, and the ungraspable vastness of the universe. She was born in Philadelphia, PA. She received a BFA in Painting from Moore College of Art and Design in 1992. She is a RN currently working in Philadelphia.

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Education

2017
Jacksonville University
BSN

2004
Abington Hospital Dixon School of Nursing

1992
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
BFA in Painting

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Bibliography

Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 9, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA

American Artwork, 2021 Edition

Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 9, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA

Exhibitions

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Solo

2024
Central Tattoo Studio, Philadelphia, PA

2022
Central Tattoo Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

2020
a beautiful day in the solar system, Installation, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA

2018
Soft Machine Gallery, Allentown, PA

Moko Beauty, Philadelphia, PA

2017
Lebanon Picture Frame and Fine Art Gallery, Lebanon, PA

2011
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Featured Artist, Art House Lounge, Harrisburg, PA

2007
Tenth Street Laundromat, Philadelphia, PA

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Group

2023
The Calm Before the Storm, CFEVA Members Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

Out of This World, Two-person exhibit with Caroline Santa, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

2022
CFEVA Exhibition, Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, PA

A Celebration of Art and Life, Perelman Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

Exhibition, Penn Medicine Radnor, Radnor, PA

2021
Another Terrain, Two-person exhibit with Albert Fung, City Arts Salon, Philadelphia, PA

Up Against a Wall, Awbury Arboretum, Philadelphia, PA

Painting At Night, Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

2020
Favorite Things, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

Carbon Snaps, InLiquid atThe Yard, Philadelphia, PA

2017
Fourth Biennial Winter Group Show: Snowflake Salon, Philadelphia, PA

Unanchored Geometry, InLiquid at Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Dear Fleisher, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Jefferson Art Show, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Campus, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Ritual: Reading Room, HBHQ, 1241 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia, PA

The Freedom Gallery for Girls, Gryphone Cafe, Wayne, PA

2014
Group Show, Lebanon Picture Frame and Fine Art Gallery, Lebanon, PA

Benefit Exhibition for Ballet X, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Content: An International Exhibition, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA

Signs and Systems, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group Show, Champions of Empty Rooms, Dick Blick, Philadelphia, PA

2013 Member Exhibition, InLiquid, Philadelphia Photo Arts, Second State Press, ICE BOX Project Space, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA

(no) Hope, Champions of Empty Rooms, 1522 Salon, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Snowflake Salon, Bridge Club of Center City, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational

2011
Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

Snowflake Salon, 110 Church St Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Invitational

2010
Art at Essene, Essene, Philadelphia PA

Works on Paper Rejects, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA

2009
The Art of the Flower, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

8 inch Miniature Show, Gallery of Art, Fontbonne University, St Louis, MO

All Small Redux, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

Guilty Pleasures, Projects Gallery Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

11th Annual All Media Juried Online Exhibit, Upstream People Gallery

2008
Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

Fall Collection Exhibit, 

F.U.E.L. Collection, Philadelphia, PA

2D Juried Exhibition, Art House Lounge, Harrisburg, PA

Art of the State: Pennsylvania, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition: Choice Abstractions, 
Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

2007
Absolutely Abstract Show, 
The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

South Philly Artists Group Show, Art@Sophi, Philadelphia, PA

2004
The Parlor, Philadelphia, PA

2001
Journeys, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition

1999
Big Jar Books, Philadelphia, PA

1994
Small Works, 
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

KALIaesthetics, Joe's Mill Hill Saloon, Trenton, NJ

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Other


2007
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours