Kelsie Ward

Installation artist Kelsie Ward builds environments that question how we locate ourselves within natural and human-made landscapes. Materials sourced from the construction industry including polystyrene, cast resin, and plywood bring together Ward’s themes of place, perspective, and our increasingly constructed reality.

Ward’s abstract sculptures mimic rocks and glaciers but are constructed from materials chosen based on their synthetic properties. Fabricated textures and colors emerge from the ground with digitally-inspired, two-dimensional matrices of triangles. Ward encourages viewers to examine the definition of nature with artificial, organic forms in an indoor setting.

Kelsie Ward is an award-winning midwest-based artists. Ward earned her MFA from Southern Illinois University and BA in Economics and Psychology from the College of St. Benedict.