| NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY SMITHSONIAN The Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition Washington, DC March 23, 2013 - February 23, 2014  "Kevin," 2010 As part of a series leading up to the exhibition, The National Portrait Gallery interviewed me about my work and featured it on their blog: Portrait of An Artist: Keliy Anderson-Staley ________________________________________________________3/9/13_ PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART "Between Past and Present: The Winslow Homer Photographic Project" Portland, Maine October 6, 2012 - February 17, 2013  Pictured above: Three wet-plate collodion landscapes, photographed at the Winslow Homer Studio at Prouts Neck, ME and 24 wet-plate collodion still lifes of objects found in the studio. The 24 still lifes, installed under the title "Objects of Uncertain Provenance," have been acquired by the museum. ________________________________________________________10/19/12_  ________________________________________________________10/17/12_  ________________________________________________________10/15/12_ The Playhouse at Artspace and the Lot I just completed a series of tintype portraits at Liberty Safe Haven in New Haven, CT to be exhibited at Artspace beginning October 5 in conjunction with The Playhouse project.  The event was curated by Marianne Bernstein and will also feature works by artist Darwin Nix. The exhibtion, "Beyond What Was," will run at Artspace until October 22.  "Kevin," New Haven, 2012 On October 12, 13 and 14 I will be returning to New Haven, to shoot more photographs of the public in the Playhouse Cube in the Lot. On the weekend evenings in October, video by Danielle Lessovitz of my August shoot will be projected onto the cube. ________________________________________________________8/30/12_  Catherine Edelman Gallery will be exhibiting an installation of my tintype portraits at Expo Chicago at the Navy Pier. I will be there shooting tintype portraits. Come find me if you are in Chicago. September 20-23 ________________________________________________________8/29/12_ Tintypes Recently Acquired for Permanent Collections These two tintypes have become part of the collection of photographs held at the Library of Congress:   "Masahiro," 2009 "Latasha,"2009 These three tintypes are now part of the collection at the Southeast Museum of Photography:    "Clarence," 2012 "Lesley," 2012 "Daniel," 2012 ________________________________________________________8/15/12_    Group show featuring work by Keliy Anderson-Staley, John Cyr, Elizabeth Ernst, Myra Greene, and Gregory Scott Exhibition Dates: July 13 - September 1, 2012 Reception with the artists: Friday, July 13 5:00 - 8:00 pm more info my work in the exhibition ARTIST TALK VIDEO ________________________________________________________6/26/12_ HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWS RELEASE, APRIL 2012 Providence, RI – The Board of Administration of the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation has awarded nine fellowships of $30,000 each for the 2012-2013 academic year. The nine recipients represent the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Photography. The 2012-2013 fellows in photography and their projects are: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Independent Artist, Russellville, AR, An Archive of Inherited Fictions: Imagined Family Heirlooms. Noah Addis, Independent Artist, Philadelphia, PA, Future Cities. Simen Johan, Independent Artist, New York, NY, Until the Kingdom Comes. Jason Francisco, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Emory University, Alive and Destroyed: New Photographs from Eastern Europe. ________________________________________________________4/20/12_ Named one of one hundred "New Superstars of Southern Art" by  Look for my work in the latest issue, "The Visual South." From the magazine: In “[hyphen] Americans” (2008–present), Keliy Anderson-Staley’s portraits of contemporary Americans, each image is made as a unique and un-reproducible tintype image using a technology and a technique from the middle of the nineteenth century. These subjects appear as if they have been transported from an earlier and more serious time when the making of a portrait was a slow, difficult, and rare event: when the image was a landmark in the sitter’s life. In our modern society, the ubiquity of images, camera phones, and the digital availability of innumerable images has inured most of us to the potential “presence” that an image of others, or even of ourselves, might possess. Such an idea also runs the gamut of her work, including a color series about families living “Off the Grid” (2010), or free of a life encumbered by electricity. Now, she teaches those ideas near her home in Russellville, Arkansas. —Kevin Miller, Director, Southeast Museum of Photography ________________________________________________________3/1/12_  [hyphen] Americans: Contemporary Tintype Portraits Keliy Anderson-Staley March 2 – May 2, 2012 Public Portrait Sessions with Anderson-Staley: Wednesday, February 29 starting at 10:00am Student Seminar: Thursday, March 1 at 11:00am (Photography School Lecture Theater, Bldg. 530, Rm. 118) DSC Portrait Session with Anderson-Staley: Thursday, March 1 at 12:30pm (Bldg. 530, Rm. 225) ~ Artist's Talk and Opening Reception: March 2, 6:00-8:00pm ~ More information. ________________________________________________________2/25/12_ [hyphen] Americans featured on Flak Photo  ________________________________________________________1/20/12_   My exhibition “[hyphen] AMERICANS” will be on view through February 9th at the Palitz Gallery at the Lubin House in NYC. ________________________________________________________1/17/12_ 54th Annual Delta Exhibition Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock  Friday, January 27, 2012 - Sunday, April 01, 2012 Winner: Delta Award ________________________________________________________12/29/11_  [hyphen] Americans Keliy Anderson-Staley Palitz Gallery at Lubin House The opening reception will be held on Wed, Dec. 14 from 6:00 - 8:00 with a brief talk about the work at 7:00. The exhibition will run from December 14 - February 8, 2012 Lubin House is at 11 E 61 St in Manhattan. This series was exhibited most recently at Light Work in Syracuse and was featured in the Fall issue of Contact Sheet. The show includes over 180 of my tintypes, 50 vintage tintypes, many on loan from the Onondaga Historical Association, and five 36x46" prints. ________________________________________________________12/06/11_  Wet Plate and Mirrors: Photographers Working with Historical Processes October 15 - November 26 with Keliy Anderson-Staley, Joni Sternbach, David Prifti, S. Gayle Stevens, and Curtis Wehrfritz More info... _________________________________________________________   KELIY ANDERSON-STALEY [hyphen] Americans Light Work Main Gallery: Aug 8 - Oct 14, 2011 Gallery reception: OCTOBER 6, 5-7pm  Buy a copy... _________________________________________________________ August 2011 issue of   Tear sheets can be seen here. _________________________________________________________ KICKSTARTER  by Keliy Anderson-Staley Keliy Anderson-Staley combines new tintype portraits with found antique photos, letters and cloth to question how we create identities. _________________________________________________________  Artist's Talk at Project Basho Time: June 24, 7 pm _________________________________________________________ Photo National 2011 at the University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME  _________________________________________________________ John Cleary Gallery March 26-April 23, 2011 Keliy Anderson-Staley: Imagined Family Heirlooms  John Cleary Gallery presents the exhibition Keliy Anderson-Staley: Imagined Family Heirlooms. Please join us Saturday, March 26, from 6 – 8 p.m. for the opening of Keliy Anderson-Staley: Imagined Family Heirlooms. The exhibition will run through Saturday, April 23. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception.
Born in 1977 in the woods of northern Maine, Keliy Anderson-Staley received her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York, NY.
Imagined Family Heirlooms harkens back to the rootless nature of the American identity, with many individuals unable to place family histories back more than one or two generations. This series of installations, comprised of both found and newly-made objects alike, suggests those photographs and sentimental objects one might have collected over the years. Domesticity in a wide range of connotations plays a central part in her works, as is evident in the use of rusted baking pans as a unifying visual motif.
_________________________________________________________ "Off The Grid" Image Published in Adbusters Magazine February 2011   The Quote under the image reads: "Until you dig a hole, plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing." -Wangari Maathai _________________________________________________________  Anderson-Staley's exhibit, titled “Photographic Objects,” brings together three separate projects of hers: “-Americans: Contemporary Tintype Portraits,” “Baking Pan Series: An Incomplete Family History,” and “Imagined Family Heirlooms.” "All three projects make use of photography as an essential element, but in each case the photographs are used as part of larger installations to create works dealing with themes of identity, family and history. The projects range from pure photography done with historic processes to more sculptural installations. Each project asks us to think about the role that photography plays in our sense of cultural identity, our construction of memories and our connection to family histories.” Opening Reception Feb 8 from 6-8 pm The exhibit will run from Feb. 1-25. _________________________________________________________  Exhibit Opens February 12, 2011 in Philadelphia  ________________________________________________________1/8/10_  Contemporary American Photography
Part I - American Portraits / Part II - American Temples
Part I - American Portraits
Keliy Anderson-Staley, Abe Frajndlich, Mary Ellen Mark, Wendy Paton opening reception:
Saturday, January 29, 2011 7 - 9.30 pm
opening hours:
up to February 19, every Tuesday till Saturday 4 - 8 pm,
February 20 up to March 5, 2011 only by appointment.
________________________________________________________1/8/10_   Susan Maasch Fine Art 567 Congress, Portland, ME ________________________________________________________1/1/10_   December 16, 2010 - March 5, 2011
Opening Reception:
Thursday, December 16, 5:30-7:30pm
Stalking the Wild Asparagus: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Adrain Chesser and Timothy White Eagle, Lucas Foglia, Taj Forer and Justine Kurland ________________________________________________________12/15/10_  A series of portraits I took of couples has been published in the Russian version of Esquire. There is an online gallery here. If it is available in your area, please also look for the print version of the story.  ________________________________________________________10/22/10_    One of my tintypes will be projected onto the eterior of the Corcoran Gallery during FotoWeek DC as part of a slideshow curated by Andy Adams of FlakPhoto. ________________________________________________________10/21/10_  Nov 1, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011 Curated by Flanders Gallery and Allen Thomas, Jr. , the Open Season exhibition explores this phrase in both the literal and colloquial sense: a time of year (hunting season to be exact), a time for open critique, as well as a time for games, play and individual exploration--an "anything goes" type of ideology. This exhibition will feature photographs and videos by such artists as Keliy Anderson-Staley, Tim Briner, Jesse Burke, Katrina D'Autremont, Ian F.G. Dunn, Nils Ericson, Dan Estabrook, Jody Fausett, Taj Forer, Anthony Goicolea, Allison Hunter, Michael Itkoff, Bill Jacobson, Sara Anne Johnson, Carrie Levy, Chris McCaw, Pam Pecchio, Kristine Potter, Francesca Romeo, Kerry Skarbakka, Tema Stauffer, Bill Sullivan, Tim Tate, Brian Ulrich, Burk Uzzle, Stacy-Lynn Waddell, Shen Wei, Jeff Whetstone, and Cosmo Whyte. ________________________________________________________10/15/10_ "Tintype Portraits" Solo Show at the Jerome Leibling Wing at the Arts Village at Hampshire College    ________________________________________________________9/25/10_ Eco-Diversity: The Photographs of Keliy Anderson Staley and Jeff Whetstone at Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC (September - November, 2010) ________________________________________________________9/9/10_ Tintype Portraits of Emerging NYC Gallerists for Art & Auction Magazine September, 2010    ________________________________________________________9/1/10_ Tintype Portraits in Hemispheres Magazine. Check out the print copy for about a dozen of my images of urban beekeepers in Philadelphia:  ________________________________________________________8/1/10_ "Off the Grid" featured in July issue PDN (Photo District News)  _______________________________________________________7/2/10_ Tintype Portraits in "A Summer of Photography" at Flomenhaft Gallery    ____________________________________________________7/8/10 - 8/27/10_  "-Americans: Tintype Portraits" has received a grant from the Puffin Foundation. __________________________________________________________4/25/10_  May 1 July 24, 2010
Saturday, May 1
Opening Reception: 3:00-5:00pm
Gallery Talk by the Juror & Awards Ceremony: 3:30pm
84th Annual International Competition: Photography
Juror: Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA  __________________________________________________________4/25/10_  Simmons College presents "Going Forward, Looking Back: Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st Century," April 20 - May 28 at the Simmons College Trustman Art Gallery, fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway, in Boston. A reception will be held on Thursday, April 22 from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. __________________________________________________________4/23/10_ Aperture Portfolio Prize Gallery Launches .jpg) __________________________________________________________2/1/10_ SOLO SHOW "OFF THE GRID" Winner of the Joyce Elaine Grant Prize Opens at the Texas Woman's University  SHOW INFO REVIEW __________________________________________________________1/30/10_ NEW WORK UP AT THE CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: "Riverside-Americans"  "For Riverside -Americans, Keliy invited members of the local community as well as UCR ARTSblock curators and staff to sit for tintype portraits. The workshops took place over the course of two long afternoons in October 2009. Participants were immersed in a classic 19th century portrait studio experience. They watched attentively as the photographer set the camera, developed images in a makeshift cardboard darkroom, and as their own tintype portraits slowly came to life in the watery bath. There will be a opening reception for the exhibition from 6:00 - 9:00 at UCR/CMP on Thursday, February 4th as part of First Thursday ARTSwalk." More INFO ___________________________________________________________1/29/10_ Review of Alternative Process show at the University of New England Gallery in Maine in the Portland Press Herald - Maine Sunday Telegram.  The show will be moving later this Spring to other venues in New England, including Simmons College; UMASS, Dartmouth; and the Maine Media Workshops. ___________________________________________________________1/20/10_ "Off the Grid" featured on Flak Photo:  ___________________________________________________________11/25/09_ "Off the Grid" selected as a runner-up for the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize:  ________________________________________________________________ Image selected by Mary Ellen Mark for "Portraits" Exhibition at the Center for Fine Art Photography:  ________________________________________________________________ Read my conversation with NYMPHOTO:  ________________________________________________________________ "Fractions of Sight" opening at Rockland Center for the Arts (ROCA) 10/18. My tintype "quilt" will be on display until Dec 2:  .jpg)  ________________________________________________________________ Solo show opening at UCR California Museum of Photography in Riverside, CA:     ________________________________________________________________ Off the Grid wins honorable mention award in the photography.book.now competition sponsored by Blurb.com:  ________________________________________________________________ "Off the Grid" Video-cast at Daylight Magazine:  ________________________________________
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