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BIOGRAPHY 

Kelsey Lynn, Born 1991 in Morristown, New Jersey. Lives and works between Toronto, Canada and North Adams, MA, USA 

Before arriving in the United States and discovering her love of printmaking, artist Kelsey-Lynn Corradetti studied dance and painting at the Quinte Ballet School of Canada, the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, and the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts. Drawing on her training in both movement/action and painting, monoprinting is her preferred method of art making. She spent the last few years developing a language of line and color that links her to action painters and process-based artists. 

The implied finality of works pulled from plate beds allows Corradetti the finality she desires but struggled to find in painting processes where she was never able to let a work be finished. 

SHOW DETAILS 

Kelsey-Lynn Corradetti: Oc.cult

Solo Exhibition | March 18, 2023 - May 2023 

3rd Eye Gallery | Hoosick Falls, NY 

Opening reception: March 18 - 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm

WORK STATEMENT  

Canadian artist Kelsey-Lynn Corradetti thinks about the occult as both a verb and a process. People are generally familiar with the word’s late 15th century meaning: to secret, conceal, or hide— a system of belief around the unknown. Through the collaborative and inherently mysterious process of monoprinting, the results of her final works are unknown to her during their making. The image reveals itself after many layers of ink and much belief in the process that is fundamentally one of trust. Each piece is a singular and unique exploration of color and the structure of lines, yet the process is based on repetitive steps and collaboration.

Corradetti produced all her works at Gravity Press, an experimental press based in North Adams, MA, down the street from MASS MoCA, one of the largest contemporary art museums in North America. Gravity Press Experimental Print Shop is owned and operated by masterprinter Brandon Graving. Corradetti’s works are printed on a platen press which, instead of rolling the work through quickly as is most common for printmaking techniques, uses hydraulic force to press the paper and inked metal or acrylic plates between many pounds of force. This, combined with Corradetti pulling, splashing, and flinging ink, gives the works a characteristic feeling of action painting. Still, much is hidden from and revealed to Corradetti in the process of producing her work, thus Oc.cult. 

Oc.cult features 19+ framed monoprints and an additional collection of unframed works, both produced with high-pigment lithography ink on Rives BFK paper. The ink transfer to the paper results in a single print that, even if the plate were re-inked, would not ever yield the same print twice. 

ARTIST STATEMENT  

I am enamored with the unexpected yet definitive nature of printmaking. The entire process, no matter how sure I am in the application of ink to plate, is unruly and refuses to be controlled. And once the ink is pressed into the paper that’s it. I accept the outcome without alteration. My attempts to control the uncontrollable results in movement, action, and color fields that I try, but cannot anticipate. It’s similar to how I understand and move through life. There may be a plan but the outcome is never entirely in my control. The creation of these images is a series of interplays between technique, the study of color, the materiality of ink, and my being present on any given day in the studio.