Kelly Lynn Jones (b. 1977 Los Angeles, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist. She earned a BFA and MFA from the College of the Arts in San Francisco. Jones has shown her work in multiple group exhibitions including The Pit at Frieze Los Angeles in 2023, La Loma Projects, The Lab, Kala Art Institute, The Berkeley Museum, Southern Exposure, Bedford Gallery, NURTUREart, and Charlotte Street Foundation. Her work has been highlighted in New American Painting 2023, The Wing’s 2020 publication, San Francisco Chronicle, and Museums Press. Kelly Lynn Jones is represented by The Pit, Los Angeles. Her work can be found in public collections including the Qgunquit Museum of American Art in Maine, US, the Aishti Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon, and the X Museum in Beijing, China amongst other private collections worldwide.

I use painting as a magical tool to stop time. Referencing my daily life, I paint imagined spaces at the intersection of the real and whimsical. I look for tender moments of reflection. Flora an fauna are my guides through the seasons and act as symbols of the temporality of all things. My paintings are colorful and pattern-filled snapshots featuring the romantic and playful as I explore the natural world, motherhood, the objects we surround ourselves with, memory, and the wistful.

Exhibition:

Mythology/Matriarchy