Kelda Van Patten
Artist Statement
Through my work, I seek to invoke a sense of surprise or contradiction through the consideration of photographs that occupy liminal spaces between artifice and truth and imagination and the real. My work embodies the natural cycles of change: perpetually unfolding, and in a permanent state of suspense. Through a series of interventions and iterations, I both celebrate and question relationships between femininity, repression, beauty, nature, and loss.
Kelda Van Patten is an artist and art educator who lives in Portland, Oregon. She is a member of Wave Contemporary, as well as the artist run gallery, Well Well Projects.
