Kelvy Bird in Sommerville

We're proud of fellow graphic facilitator, Kelvy Bird, a printmaker and painter living and working in the Boston area. Her personal work is on display in Sommerville Open Studios.

Kelvy's beeswax and pigment work is rippled with texture and brimming with saturated hues and ever shifting values. Even the muted color studies are humming with life.

Built as interchangeable panels and affixed via velcro to wooden frames, her artwork can constantly be reconfigured--yielding new pieces as the geometry, values and hues collaborate in a variety of combinations and grids.

Combinations represent tonal concern, taking form in site-specific arrangements that lead to vibrational shifts; a room is made more vibrant or tranquil by groupings of simple shapes – often squares – in monochromatic arrays, with varied richness of surface.

Grids represent structural internal tensions. Some pieces play on order, when rotating sub-grids – whose arrays are defined by audience interaction – determine the pattern of the larger whole.

Kelvy Bird is also an accomplished graphic facilitator with over a decade's worth of experience working in collaborative environments including the MG Taylor Knowhere Stores in Hilton Head and Palo Alto, Cap Gemini's Accelerated Solutions Environment and Dialogos.

Besides a busy professional schedule, she has been putting lots of time into local art activities, including core development functions with ARTSomerville (an organization formed for the purpose of providing arts and cultural programming and services to Somerville and its surrounding communities), managing the website and co-coordinating open studios for Vernon Street Studios, and volunteering for the Somerville Arts Council.

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Comments

[Nellie Durand]

Patchwork patterns everywhere in many mediums. Her pieces must be a wonder to actually see. What a marvelous, mysterious texture ... combined with simple shapes ... and possible interactive compositions ... WOW! Thanks for calling Kelvy's work to my attention. What a joy!