Kelsey Shwetz

Born in Canada and based in Brooklyn, New York, artist Kelsey Shwetz @kelseyshwetz received her MFA from Columbia University where she currently teaches painting. She is interested in observational reality and abstraction, specifically where our gaze settles and the interventions that disrupt that field of vision.
“Light functions as a primary organizing force throughout the work. Domestic illumination, nocturnal lamplight, and mediated light from screens divide the image into overlapping zones of visibility and shadow. Interiors often bleed into exteriors, while landscape appears embedded within or at odds with architectural structure. These moments of partial visibility disrupt a stable point of view, creating scenes that feel recognizable yet unsettled, shaped as much by memory and attention as by physical description.”
See more from Kelsey Shwetz on our site. Link in bio.

Born in Canada and based in Brooklyn, New York, artist Kelsey Shwetz @kelseyshwetz received her MFA from Columbia University where she currently teaches painting. She is interested in observational reality and abstraction, specifically where our gaze settles and the interventions that disrupt that field of vision.
“Light functions as a primary organizing force throughout the work. Domestic illumination, nocturnal lamplight, and mediated light from screens divide the image into overlapping zones of visibility and shadow. Interiors often bleed into exteriors, while landscape appears embedded within or at odds with architectural structure. These moments of partial visibility disrupt a stable point of view, creating scenes that feel recognizable yet unsettled, shaped as much by memory and attention as by physical description.”
See more from Kelsey Shwetz on our site. Link in bio.

Born in Canada and based in Brooklyn, New York, artist Kelsey Shwetz @kelseyshwetz received her MFA from Columbia University where she currently teaches painting. She is interested in observational reality and abstraction, specifically where our gaze settles and the interventions that disrupt that field of vision.
“Light functions as a primary organizing force throughout the work. Domestic illumination, nocturnal lamplight, and mediated light from screens divide the image into overlapping zones of visibility and shadow. Interiors often bleed into exteriors, while landscape appears embedded within or at odds with architectural structure. These moments of partial visibility disrupt a stable point of view, creating scenes that feel recognizable yet unsettled, shaped as much by memory and attention as by physical description.”
See more from Kelsey Shwetz on our site. Link in bio.

Born in Canada and based in Brooklyn, New York, artist Kelsey Shwetz @kelseyshwetz received her MFA from Columbia University where she currently teaches painting. She is interested in observational reality and abstraction, specifically where our gaze settles and the interventions that disrupt that field of vision.
“Light functions as a primary organizing force throughout the work. Domestic illumination, nocturnal lamplight, and mediated light from screens divide the image into overlapping zones of visibility and shadow. Interiors often bleed into exteriors, while landscape appears embedded within or at odds with architectural structure. These moments of partial visibility disrupt a stable point of view, creating scenes that feel recognizable yet unsettled, shaped as much by memory and attention as by physical description.”
See more from Kelsey Shwetz on our site. Link in bio.

Born in Canada and based in Brooklyn, New York, artist Kelsey Shwetz @kelseyshwetz received her MFA from Columbia University where she currently teaches painting. She is interested in observational reality and abstraction, specifically where our gaze settles and the interventions that disrupt that field of vision.
“Light functions as a primary organizing force throughout the work. Domestic illumination, nocturnal lamplight, and mediated light from screens divide the image into overlapping zones of visibility and shadow. Interiors often bleed into exteriors, while landscape appears embedded within or at odds with architectural structure. These moments of partial visibility disrupt a stable point of view, creating scenes that feel recognizable yet unsettled, shaped as much by memory and attention as by physical description.”
See more from Kelsey Shwetz on our site. Link in bio.

Born in Canada and based in Brooklyn, New York, artist Kelsey Shwetz @kelseyshwetz received her MFA from Columbia University where she currently teaches painting. She is interested in observational reality and abstraction, specifically where our gaze settles and the interventions that disrupt that field of vision.
“Light functions as a primary organizing force throughout the work. Domestic illumination, nocturnal lamplight, and mediated light from screens divide the image into overlapping zones of visibility and shadow. Interiors often bleed into exteriors, while landscape appears embedded within or at odds with architectural structure. These moments of partial visibility disrupt a stable point of view, creating scenes that feel recognizable yet unsettled, shaped as much by memory and attention as by physical description.”
See more from Kelsey Shwetz on our site. Link in bio.

A painting for light projections and the idea of stained glass and the first sidewalk chalk drawings of the season
Shadow Work, Oil on Panel, 14”x11”

Excerpt from one of my fav Schuyler poems:
Light on leaves,
so much to see, and
all I really see is that
owl, its bulk troubling
the twilight. I’ll
soon forget it: what
is there I have not forgot?
Or one day will forget:
this garden, the breeze
in stillness, even
the words, Korean mums.
Light on Leaves, 46”x36” up at @coulisse_gallery

One decade (!!) ago I married the best person to ever exist. Happy anniversary to my truest love and the person who everything is for and forever dedicated to, @philcoldiron

One decade (!!) ago I married the best person to ever exist. Happy anniversary to my truest love and the person who everything is for and forever dedicated to, @philcoldiron

One decade (!!) ago I married the best person to ever exist. Happy anniversary to my truest love and the person who everything is for and forever dedicated to, @philcoldiron

One decade (!!) ago I married the best person to ever exist. Happy anniversary to my truest love and the person who everything is for and forever dedicated to, @philcoldiron

One decade (!!) ago I married the best person to ever exist. Happy anniversary to my truest love and the person who everything is for and forever dedicated to, @philcoldiron

One decade (!!) ago I married the best person to ever exist. Happy anniversary to my truest love and the person who everything is for and forever dedicated to, @philcoldiron

One decade (!!) ago I married the best person to ever exist. Happy anniversary to my truest love and the person who everything is for and forever dedicated to, @philcoldiron

Thank you everyone who came to the opening! 💐💐💐
Reception is up until Nov 1 at @coulisse_gallery
Colonnade, 24”x20”

Reception opens tomorrow!
🥖🫒🍋🍾🍖🍷🐟🧀
Preview tonight 5-8pm @coulisse_gallery
“Burnout”, 24”x30”
From the press release:
The revelations of Shwetz’s paintings lie in their profound embodiment, despite the general lack of human presence. These are, in every sense, interior paintings, fleshed out into scenes of sense. No small battles are waged here, and many more questions are raised. What is “natural” anyway, in these times? How does one wait, bearing through the idle flurry of thoughts between appointments? At what point does desire become unsavoury, particularly in the face of things not done? (Asked another way, when does escapism veer into withdrawal?) And how exactly can something rise to the level of symbol, without witnesses?
-Sam Kerbel

Excited to announce that my solo show “Reception” opens in one week at @coulisse_gallery !
I’m so excited to share these paintings, especially this one, which includes one of my favorite digital spaces 🎮⛪️
Sanctuary, 60”x50”

Excited to announce that my solo show “Reception” opens in one week at @coulisse_gallery !
I’m so excited to share these paintings, especially this one, which includes one of my favorite digital spaces 🎮⛪️
Sanctuary, 60”x50”

Excited to announce that my solo show “Reception” opens in one week at @coulisse_gallery !
I’m so excited to share these paintings, especially this one, which includes one of my favorite digital spaces 🎮⛪️
Sanctuary, 60”x50”

I’m continuously fascinated by spaces that are both interior and exterior. Last summer in Italy, looking through the glass panel of a balcony door, there was a moment at night where the lit up hotel room became both backdrop and sky of the courtyard outside.
Balcony, 40”x30”

A painting about after dinner hours with @abigailvrobinson at the @amacademyrome
The sodium lamplight in that courtyard remains such a lovely memory 🧡
Welcome Party, 10”x8” at @newartdealers for a few more days with @coulisse_gallery !
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