Kiley Ames

Sky With No Ceiling

Oil on linen

"My artwork depicts not only the objective reality I am in, but also thrives on the emotions I feel from both past and present experiences. Much of my work is formed from how I view fragmentation and fragments; the isolated and incomplete parts that make up the whole. Like history, these fragments can be edited, rewritten, omitted, and reinterpreted to create one's perception of reality.

There is no beginning or end with these fragmentations, there is just interaction and exchange. The dense flecks of color populating the surface, light against dark, muted against vivid, come together to ultimately create an image simultaneously unified and disparate, often reflecting the alienation of the subject itself." — Kiley Ames

About the artist

Kiley Ames

Kiley Ames lives and works in Los Angeles and Oakland, CA. She received her BA in History from UCLA, a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Ames has been awarded residencies in Beijing and Shanghai as well as Leipzig, Germany. She is the recipient of multiple grants including the Barbara Deming Memorial Grant, Leslie T. and Frances U. Posey Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. In addition to her own studio practice, she was a freelancer at Annie Leibovitz Studio for almost ten years. Recent exhibitions include her first museum exhibition, Figures, at the American University Museum in Washington, D.C., In the Labyrinth, New York University Kimmel Galleries, It Figures: The Body in Art, Arc Gallery, Chicago ILL; States of Reality, Gallery 66, Cold Springs, NY, Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York, One Year of Resistance, The Untitled Space, New York, Facing Contemporary Issues at The Tides Galleries, San Francisco, Purely Abstract, at Kavanagh Gallery, Illinois, Gesture and Motion at Site:Brooklyn, New York, and was selected to create a public work for the Los Angeles Metro, More People Than You Know. She recently published her first monograph, "Fighting the Good Fight: A Breast Cancer Journey."