PLEASE JOIN US
for
Kelly Witmer and Sarah Peters
in conversation, discussing the current exhibition
Kelly Witmer: Morphologies
Saturday, Nov 8 at 3:00 PM EST
Kelly Witmer currently splits her time between Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA. She has had a solo show at the Museum of the Southwest (Midland, TX); a two person show at Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA); and project room show at Melissa Morgan Gallery (Palm Desert, CA). Group exhibitions include Game Time, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Primal Instincts, Techne Art Center (San Diego , CA); Smokey Trails, Rhett Baruch Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Uncharted Elsewehere, San Diego Central Library Gallery (San Diego, CA); Western Mystique, Dorado 806 (Santa Monica, CA); and Light Emitting Objects, Culture Object (New York, NY). Her public art installations can be found in Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, and San Diego, CA. Witmer is currently Guest Faculty at the Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen, CO). Residencies include Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna, FL), Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts (Newcastle, ME), and Can Serrat (Barcelona, Spain). She received a BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Sarah Peters lives and works in New York City. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Nathalie Karg Gallery (New York, NY); Fahrenheit (Madrid, Spain); Zidoun Bossuyt, (Luxembourg); NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts (New York, NY); Van Doren Waxter (New York, NY); Halsey McKay Gallery (East Hampton, NY); Eleven Rivington (New York, NY); Asya Geisberg (New York, NY); and John Davis Gallery (Hudson, NY). Group exhibitions include Infinite Regress, Kepmer Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO); Full Disclosure, Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND); Vessel, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Evening of the Day, Julian Cadet Gallery (Paris, France); High Contrast, Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles, CA); Samaritans, Galerie Eva Presenhuber (New York, NY); No Patience for Monuments, Perrotin Gallery (Seoul); Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT), among others. She is a recipient of awards and residencies including the National Academy Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, John Michael Kohler Artist Residency, (WI); New York Foundation for the Arts; The Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA); and The Sharpe-Wallentas Studio Program. Her work has been reviewed and featured in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Artforum, and The Brooklyn Rail. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and BFA from The University of Pennsylvania and The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.