{"id":31,"date":"2014-10-06T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarity.pro\/dkell\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T19:43:12","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/?page_id=31","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"792\" src=\"http:\/\/kellgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2023-portrait-IMG_9720-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5617\" style=\"width:250px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2023-portrait-IMG_9720-cropped.jpg 772w, https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2023-portrait-IMG_9720-cropped-768x788.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have new life as an artist in Santa Fe. This&nbsp;follows&nbsp;childhood in Michigan, then Atlanta, Tampa, and New Orleans; college at Brown University; a long stretch in the Boston metro area as an educational researcher; starting a doctoral program and completing a master\u2019s degree at Harvard; and, amidst all this, marrying and being a mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I left my first career in 1996 and started painting while joining my husband for months at a time as he worked in Europe and Brazil. We came to Santa Fe in 2001. He still traveled as a consultant, and I began a second career as a gallery administrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stayed in New Mexico after my husband passed away because the sky lifted my spirits. Now, as an artist, I try to do the same\u00a0for others. I imagine them waking to a sunrise feeling hopeful, seeing promise in a rainbow, wandering among clouds, being awed at sunset. If a painting holds my gaze for a long time and I feel joy, peace or wonder, then I believe others will feel it, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My new life includes marrying again in 2007 and, for ten years, being a foster parent for&nbsp;children. I was juried into the Santa Fe Society of Artists in 2017. I would not have expected nor hoped for this life, but it is good. Very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have new life as an artist in Santa Fe. This&nbsp;follows&nbsp;childhood in Michigan, then Atlanta, Tampa, and New Orleans; college at Brown University; a long stretch in the Boston metro area as an educational researcher; starting a doctoral program and completing a master\u2019s degree at Harvard; and, amidst all this, marrying and being a mother. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/?page_id=31\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":150,"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5620,"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}