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Longtime abstract artist and art workshop leader Margaret Kellermann currently works in palette-knifed acrylics on canvas and 3-D art assemblage. She paints color-soaked seascapes and fanciful scenes, which get their texture from palette knife and brush. Often the paintings are named after beaches and waterways in Humboldt County, such as Gold Light on Moonstone Beach, Mad River Estuary, Centerville, and Eel River Fernbridge.
Both her paintings and her works in 3-D assemblage have been shown across the country, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Locally they have been displayed at Morris Graves Museum of Art, Strawberry Rock Gallery, and other venues across Humboldt. Each month from 2014-16 at her Blue Lake Studio Gallery, Kellermann chose one local abstract painter's work to be shown alongside her own work during Blue Lake Art Night, which she instigated.
With art assemblage, Kellermann freely creates large pieces from reclaimed materials, as in Glass Quilt (beach finds and vintage window), Our Current Rain Catchment System (recycled glass, wire, metal and vintage finds), and One in 95 Eurekans Slept Outside Last Night (reconfigured toy materials), all of which have been displayed in shows at Morris Graves Museum of Art.
For her work in social ARTivism in art assemblage, she received a grant from California Department of Housing to create and display a full-sized shelter for a family of three, using locally reclaimed materials for a creative prototype.
Kellermann is director of Brave Arts, a DreamMaker project with The Ink People. Brave Arts encourages locals to tap into their creative potential, with art hikes, workshops and creative coaching.
