jai b keller

Visual Artist

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Light Space & Time “Solo Art Series”

Jai Keller’s work will be featured in the Artist Showcase at Light Space & Time, January 1 – 14, 2024.

The “Solo Art Series” competition closed on September 5, 2023. 12 artists were selected as finalists. From that selection, 4 artists were chosen to receive individual month-long solo art exhibitions.  The remaining 8 artists were awarded Artist Showcase features.

The Solo Art Series took place within an extremely competitive atmosphere.   The task of selecting only four top winning artists from the 69 artists who entered was extremely challenging.  The high quality of submissions made creating the final rankings extraordinarily difficult. 

The competitive process considered not only the quality and depth of the artist’s work but also the overall entry presentation, including the artist’s biography and artist’s statement.  The following are the 4 winning Solo Series Artists and the schedule of their solo art exhibitions.Solo Art Exhibition Schedule

  • Adam Strange September 15, 2023 to October 14, 2023  
  • Xiong Yanteng October 15, 2023, to November 14, 2023  
  • Nic Tibo November 15, 2023, to December 14, 2023  
  • Robert Bolla December 15, 2023, to January 14, 2024  

As part of the selection process, the other 8 artists who were in the top 12 have been awarded an Artist Showcase feature. The artists who were selected for the Artist Showcase features (with one Artist Showcase being be posted every 2 weeks beginning on September 15th are:  

Artist Showcase Artists

  • Elizabeth Darlington September 15, 2023 to September 30, 2023  
  • Brian Binder October 1, 2023 to October 14, 2023  
  • Gwynneth Green October 15, 2023 to October 30, 2023  
  • Gabiko IoMo November 1, 2023 to November 14, 2023  
  • Xie Zheng Xian ASen November 15, 2023 to November 30, 2023  
  • Tom Mulqueen December 1, 2023 to December 14, 2023  
  • Bob Whitcomb December 15, 2023 to December 31, 2023  
  • Jai Keller January 1, 2024 to January 14, 2024

writing about painting

This last piece of art I did yesterday
It has me
It speaks to me
I find myself at a beach, a house, black, with whitened shutters, a large front door that was stark white and then I softened it with some creamy white with tints of magnenta on the floor boards.. some figures in black dance at the opening.. they are as large as the opening
They have outgrown the house.. the roof is becoming the wind, the sky, it is dissolving into , becoming nothing, becoming
Something else
Something other than its form of house…
The ocean comes right up to this abode and the waves touch gently
The sky is moving fast with swirls of colors and yet there is an Empty Stillness that abides here
On the right there is some kind of boat perhaps, small, very small in comparison to the house which stands in the center of the painting even tho the sky takes up the majority of the canvass

The focus for me is this house that is dissolving, with the roof’s energy spiraling up into the sky
I no longer fit in the small enclosures I have allowed for myself to feel safe
I am being asked to expand, explore, exhilarate
I am being asked to speak, to start a fresh new path into the mystery
 
I am ready, as ready as I can be
I hear and feel the call
I am ready to plant new seeds that will harvest large expanses of treasures
Manifest, manifest, manifest
I hear this
I am ready
Ready to play in a bigger way with a voice that is not hiding
With a voice that stands in a new found confidence and maturity
A maturity that speaks aloud and wants to be heard
To be heard and felt, this, this is my voice, this is the way I see and feel and know life
I want you to know me, to understand how it is to live under the same canopy of stars and to see from our unique perspectives
Here is mine! I am ready to show you how life moves through me, how I taste the sky, the land, how my soul is learning and growing and how the empty is calling me

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