Shelley Kaplan creates art which focuses on the dualities of our personal and collective experiences. Her work is created through the visual imprints of her life’s narrative and the consumption of a myriad of external information—news, politics, history, a visual moment with nature, a conversation, a sensation, the history of art and contemporary art unfolding. Color is the physicality, the sensuality, of these imprints; the pictures are proxies for this moment, that moment, for memories, for searching. The images reveal themselves through an unknown conversation between the unconscious and the known conscious mind reflecting the poetic space between them.
Shelley Kaplan exhibited her work nationally at numerous venues including LabSpace, Edward Thorp Gallery, Peder Bonnier Gallery, New Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum and Art Centers, Coral Gables, LabSpace, Ted Greenwald Gallery, Zilka Gallery at Wesleyan University and Blum-Helman Warehouse.
Mentions include Newsweek Magazine, Art News, Arts and featured in multiple issues of Bomb magazine. Her work is included in numerous collections including Paul Schnell, Ed Downe and Charlotte Ford, American Express, Patricia Hamilton and other fine art collectors.
Shelley lived in New York City for 40 years before moving to Egremont, Massachusetts wher she currently lives and works.
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