Join us at Themes+Projects for the opening night reception for Kelly Duffield’s exhibition, Same Same.

Artist Statement

The five large paintings titled Same Same, as well as the name of this exhibition, borrow their titles from the 2019 novel of the same name by Peter Mendelsund. The protagonist in the book attends an international artists’ residency of sorts in a far away desert. While there, he discovers the Same Same shop where the shopkeeper has the mysterious ability to replicate and even make better any item brought into the shop.

About the artist

Kelly Duffield’s paintings contain collage-driven scenes of domestic life that are often strange, surreal and sufficiently ambiguous to evoke the viewer’s imagined or projected meanings. Allowing found images to influence the narrative brings Duffield’s subconscious thoughts to the work and results in combining imagery in unexpected ways to convey unspoken thoughts and meaning. 

On view from September 11, 2021 to October 30, 2021