Tag: art

Towards the frontier, navigating by the horizon. The vanishing point. Never arriving. Here to disappear—if only momentarily. To be landscape.

Perrotin Shanghai is pleased to present Invitation, former cover artist Kelly Beeman’s first solo exhibition in China. In her Brooklyn studio, illuminated by the morning sun, Kelly Beeman lingered among her canvases, adding a final touch here and adjusting a line there, as if trying to become part of the painted world she had created in the eleven works for her first solo exhibition at Perrotin Shanghai. Unlike many artists who enjoy working in the silence of night, drawing inspiration from its mystic darkness, Beeman calls herself an “early bird.” She prefers to spend time with her paintings in bright daylight—a preference that shimmers in the warm tones radiating from her canvases and in the relaxed expressions of her sunlit…