Kelli Nyman Art

07/11/2026

07/02/2026

I'm so excited that my piece, Porch Storm Watching has been included in "Cutting Edge" - Collage by New England Artists, juried by at !

My piece will be on view in-person at the gallery, and there is an online exhibition as well (check out the link in my bio)!

The opening reception is this Friday, 7/3, from 6-8pm. ✨ If you haven't yet left for holiday weekend plans 🎆, I hope you'll stop by!

The exhibition will be up through 8/2. It's going to be an exciting show! 💖

06/25/2026

So this happened!!! 😯💖 This weekend, I was surprised and delighted to learn that my piece "Always a Spare Bobby Pin" won the Edward Mitchell Bannister First Place Award at the Providence Art Club National Exhibition! 🥇

I feel very humbled to have won this award, especially given all of the truly fantastic work in the show, including the work of several artists I admire.

Thank you for selecting my work and for organizing this beautiful show and all of the programing around it.

Congrats to recent art friends who won the Rosa Peckham Second Place Award! 🥈
And to and who both had fabulous mixed pieces in the show! ❤️

👉🏾 Swipe for photos of their work and just A FEW of my favorite pieces in the show. I didn't take enough photos!

If you have the chance to visit this exhibition, you won't regret it - SO MUCH great art! It is on view through July 16th. And there is a second evening reception on Friday, July 10th from 4-7pm. 🥂

06/19/2026

Thrilled to have two of my pieces, "Always a Spare Bobby Pin" and "I Wear Mine on My Sleeve," included in the National Juried Exhibition the Providence Art Club juried by Leah Triplett!

The opening reception is this Sunday, 6/21 from 2-4pm. I can't wait to see all the work in the show, and I'd love to see you there!

The exhibition will be up through 7/16. And there will also be an Art After Dark reception on 7/10 🌙

06/16/2026

A few of my recent pieces hanging out together by window light 🪟 in the studio - including three pieces included in the Spring Art Shop Exhibition by

I love seeing the conversations that happen between them when they're displayed together. They each express something distinct, but collectively, new relationships form to tell a broader story.

06/02/2026

I’m very happy to share that three of my pieces have been included in the ART SHOP Spring Edition, an online group exhibition at Juniper Rag !

"Curated by Michelle May and Payal Thiffault of Juniper Rag, this seasonal exhibition embraces the energy of the contemporary art studio with evolving ideas, fresh bodies of work, risk-taking, reinvention and signature work."

There is so much great work in this show from artists working in a variety of mediums.

These pieces will be available for purchase in the exhibition through June 30. Visit the link in my bio!

05/21/2026

👋🏾 Some recent studio views.... (Clearly from before it got crazy hot based on my long sleeve shirt 😅)

04/30/2026

In my recent work, shapes evocative of birds or wings have been emerging, and I'm kinda into it. I think it's both a product of the folding techniques that I'm using and also the qualities and feelings that I want to achieve in my pieces. I'm often trying to capture this sense of expansiveness, rising above, and looking out towards a future, yet unwritten - hopefulness really.

As an abstract artist, my inclination is not to attempt to render a specific subject in a realistic way, but there's almost always a suggestion of something from real life, which, in turn, has its own associations. Birds and the human fascination with flight have long been connected with all of these hopeful or "lofty" ideals, so it's interesting for me to see this symbolic reference show up organically in my work, and to think about how I could explore it in a lot of different ways.

Fittingly, the title of this piece was inspired by the Emily Dickinson poem, “Hope” is the Thing with Feathers

(swipe for the full poem - it's beautiful!! ❤🕊️)

Hope Perches in the Soul, 20" x 16", paper and acrylic on wood panel