Jess Kellner

Gravity Is A Lie We Tell The Ground (Sketch 12)

2026

Jess Kellner is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has a strong focus on exploring the human condition. It’s a theme that you see in his artwork, which frequently captures the gr...

Jess Kellner (b. 1994) is an American painter whose work explores vulnerability, emotional presence, and the fragile balance between surrender and control. Drawing from a background ...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

Ursula Krauss is a German artist born in 1984 who lives & works in Nuremberg in Germany.