Madison-based artist with Sauk Prairie connections has a new show

Kel Mur, Gallery and Studio Coordinator of River Arts Inc, is exhibiting new work in their show Converge: Studies of Cohabitation at the Pyle Center from Feb 1st through Feb 23rd.

 

The Pyle Center 

702 Langdon Street 

Madison, WI 53706 

Show run: Feb 1st – 23rd 

 

Gallery hours are 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. during the week and during special events on weekends and evenings. 

“For this series of studies, I explore what it means to share a home with my romantic partner.  Each piece shows our bodies segmented and intertwined as a contemplation of what it means to learn to navigate each other’s idiosyncrasies with care.  We are each fragile in our own way. 

These works are made by taking plaster molds of my and my partner’s bodies and then casting them with strips of salvaged bedsheets embedded with wax.  Each study forms a shape similar to a cocoon or a chrysalis, gesturing towards creating a space that nurtures transformation and maturation as we learn to live with each other.” 

Kel Mur (she/they) grew up in New Jersey, graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Fine Art from Monmouth University in 2011, and received the Creativity in Studio Art Award for her senior honors thesis, Commodity. After her undergraduate studies, she relocated to New Orleans to develop her studio practice. Kel Mur has exhibited locally and nationally.

Kel Mur earned her MFA at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in the Spring of 2020 and currently resides in Madison, WI where she has been recognized as one of the Madison Bridge Work Emerging Artists (2020-21) through Art + Literature Laboratory, where she also held a brief tenure as Lead Curator. She is the co-curator of the Collateral Damage Project and Exhibition and has most recently become the Gallery and Studio Coordinator of River Arts Inc.

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