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Capturing What is Ever Changing:

Opening this May at Gallery 71, Kathryn Keller preserves the ephemerality of nature and the City’s architecture through oil paint and watercolor for the entire month.

Upper East Side—Artist Reception on Thursday, May 8th 5-8pm at Gallery 71.

For the month of May 2025, Gallery 71 is excited to announce the inaugural solo exhibition of Louisiana based painter Kathryn Keller. The inaugural exhibition also celebrates Keller's official representation by Gallery 71 as a part of their Artist Roster.  The exhibition titled "Capturing What is Ever Changing" concentrates on three different distinct bodies of Keller's work. The first, are Keller’s landscapes which capture rural central Louisiana-- specifically, Alexandria-- where Keller resides for most of the year.  The second are a series of oil on canvas and oil on paper works, depicting the magical seascapes and buildings of Nova Scotia and the rocky beautiful coast of Maine. Keller traveled to Nova Scotia in the summer of 2019 and to Maine in the summer of 2023.

         The last series featured in the exhibition, are a series of watercolors that showcase the ever-changing cityscapes of New York City. Many of the places depicted in these urban watercolor cityscapes illustrate lesser-known landmarks and scenes in New York City.  

         The common thread connecting Keller's work, whether it’s depicting rural Louisiana, the seascapes of Nova Scotia, the rocky coast of Maine, or the urban scenes of New York City, is that life is ever changing and ephemeral.  If we are lucky, we can remember those ephemeral moments in time, in a world that is ever changing.

         Kathryn Keller is an established and well-known artist from Louisiana. Having started her journey over 40 years ago at The University of the South majoring in Fine Arts and English. Her studies continued at the Arkansas Art Center, The Art Student League of New York, and The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Keller’s work has been exhibited throughout the US. Her work is in over 12 different museum collections, most recently placed in the permanent collections of The Georgia Museum of Art, the LSU Museum of Art and the Morris Museum of Art, among others.  Her work is represented by Gallery 71 in New York City, Lemieux Galleries in New Orleans, and Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta.  

All inquiries please reach out directly to Gallery 71 at galleryseventyone@gmail.com |212.744.7779| IG: @Gallery71NYC. The exhibit will be on view from May 8th – 31st. The gallery hours are Monday-Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 10am-5pm, walk-ins welcome.