About

Kelli Crockett

Kelli Crockett is a Charlotte-based multimedia artist and a recent alumnus of UNC Charlotte, having graduated just last December. A Painting and Digital Media BFA, Crockett was a College’s Honors student and earned a minor in Art History. Her work focuses on the unreality of human emotions, the persistence of identity, and the fallacy of memory. While best known for her illusionistic style of oil painting and drawing media, she also embraces a fondness for blurring the line between realism and abstraction, exploring the boundlessness of the mind when faced with reality.

Crockett has exhibited in Goodyear Arts, the Mint Museum, UNCC galleries, A4UC charity auctions, and more. Her ambitious BFA exhibition, a twenty-two painting collection titled The Fragility of Memory, was exhibited at the Undergraduate Research Conference in April and further displayed in several exhibits throughout Charlotte. Most recently, she collaborated with Heather Freeman to produce a multimedia diptych for Generations: 60 Years, 21 Conversations, a show curated to celebrate the 60th anniversary of UNCC’s College of Arts and Architecture. She now works as an AP Art History and Ceramics teacher at Ardrey Kell High School while maintaining her professional art practice, developing a new body of work, completing commissions, and volunteering in the community.

This was my first time painting in my new studio 🙂
My current studio space!
Woman in Violet on display in the Real African Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC (and yet another instance of me not knowing how to pose in front of my work.)
Group picture of the artists
Here I am with the other award winners on the stage in Rowe on reception night:)
A group picture of the artists at Goodyear Arts during the reception of The Shelf Life of Grief
Me in front of the installation at the reception