Kellen Dyer
Visual Artist

Kellen Dyer is a figurative painter based in Northern California. He graduated from Chico State with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with his show “Build-Up” featuring large cut-out figurative acrylic paintings of the artist’s bout with sleep paralysis. Now painting in oil, solving the puzzle of how multiple figures collage together into one composition is a welcomed challenge for the artist. Dyer paints in a large scale often using vibrant opposing color combinations for his figures to contribute to the detailed layers and compositions. The arrow shaped panels help play with the larger composition of how two or more figures interact; also pointing the viewer along the way. Another steady inspiration throughout Dyer’s works is the chicken. The introduction of the chicken inflatable pool toy is an effort to experiment with new textures and welcome different explanations to darker themes.