ARTIST STATEMENT

"I paint to communicate to others how I see - not what I see. The natural and persistant need to communicate, to relate, to understand and be understood by others is what draws me to paint the figure. My expressive figurations are the allegorical road map of my inner dialogue with real and invented subjects.

My process follows a pattern of repeated revision, elimination, and reconstruction that allows for accidental self-discovery. As with many painters, I have developed a set of personal rules for working with my materials that lend structure to my practice. I begin with only single pigment acrylics and from there, mix all of my own colors; nothing is allowed to go straight from the tube onto my surface. When working on canvas I begin with putty-like "heavy body" paint. I adjust the consistency and luminosity of the paint with as much consideration as I lend to the color, and by the time that the paint reaches the canvas it is entirely my own.

The process of preparing and laying out my materials serves as a period of meditation prior to the beginning of my paintings. This structured ritual helps me to get out of my own way. It is a welcomed period of cerebral silence that assists me in keeping any desire for a particular outcome at bay .I strive to maintain a loose framework of intention guided by personally evolving questions." - Kellesimone Waits

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

2009 California College of the Arts

2003 University of California, Davis

2001-2007 Santa Rosa Junior COllege

2001-2002 Scrips College, Claremont, CA

EXHIBITIONS

2009 Waits-Trenda, Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2009 "Home", ArtSpace 404, Santa Rosa, CA

2009 "Women", Siren Salon, San Anselmo, CA

2008 Chairman Cao Gallery, Sebastapol, CA (curated by Dominic Egan and William O'Keefe

2007 "Men In Power", Luscious Garage, San Francisco, CA

2007 "&Blue", A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA (curated by Dominic Egan)

2005 "A La Primavera", Graton Gallery, Graton, CA (guest artist of Susan R. Ball)

2005 "Bright Lights", A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA (curated by Andrea Speer Hibbard)

EDITORIALS

2007 "Men In Power", reviewed by Reyhann Harmanci, San Francisco Cronicle

COLLECTIONS

Megan Mullaly

Nick Offerman

Andrea Speer Hibbard

Estee Stanley

Brett and Gina Guerwitz

Hal Wilner





