Artist Reception: Over My Dead Body

Come out to the Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios on the evening of October 1st for a special Artist Reception celebrating Over My Dead Body: A Selection of Mixed-Media Work by Kelley Richardson. Kelley's show will be available for the entire month of October. If, what comes to mind, when you see a depiction of a skeleton is something scary, dark, morbid, or associated with certain cultural holidays, Kelley Richardson asks that you go away and come back when you have opened up your mind a bit.  After all- you are being held up by one right this very minute. If you strip us all down we are pretty much alike, Kelley's skeleton paintings are each portraits of the core – coupled with the fabric of experience, an emotion, a transformation.

Kelley paints skeletons because she is in constant state of self-reflection and contemplation of the human experience. Painting is how she processes the experience of being human in a sometimes inhuman world. For more information please visit http://www.strange-angel.com/.