Muddled Dreams
Ripe with nostalgia for her adolescent dreams and their intriguing distance from her current desires, Kelly Parsell creates an unexpected atmosphere of both longing and tension. Here, iconic childhood objects serve as mementos for all that was lost long ago and the complicated emotions that still pulse between that time and now. While at first…
Ripe
Ripe is a collection of four artist’s books (an abecedarian, a coloring book, a diary, and a book of poetry) and an installation. It is a coming of age story that follows a young girl transitioning into womanhood as she deals with her sexual maturation, her preteen sexual curiosities, her changing body, and the dysfunctional…
Ruined
2007, inkjet transfers on handmade menu books, acetone transfer napkin prints, rotten fruit, found table and chairs
Kelly Parsell 