2024 FOG ART + DESIGN x A16
An installation by Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock in collaboration with Zeterre Landscape Architecture.
DUO: TANDEMS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
MARCH 2 - 23, 2024 | In Juxtapoz
Harman Projects (NY) is pleased to announce DUO: Tandems in Contemporary Art, an exhibition of artist duos curated by Raul Barquet featuring the work of KeFe, PichiAvo, Saman & Sasan Oskouei, Skewville, SNIK, Yok & Sheryo, and Zebu.
Opening Night Reception:
Saturday, March 2nd
6pm to 8pm
Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Saturday / 10am - 6pm
Exhibition on view until Saturday, March 23rd
Harman Projects
54 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002
FERRIS PLOCK
for Robin | Menlo Park
KEFE
Hi-Fructose presents: Line Addicts
October 19 —November 9, 2024
-Opening Reception: Saturday, October 19 from 6-10pm
Thinkspace Projects
4217 W. Jefferson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
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FERRIS PLOCK
SOEX Annual Art Auction
SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2024 AT 6:00 PM
Southern Exposure
3030 20th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
KEFE is the expansive partnership between Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock: artists living and working with San Francisco. In their world, every plane functions as both portrait and landscape.
Plock and Tunstall’s body of work surfaces the strange joys that can come from balancing interaction with a wider world and making more with more. It’s a show about trust: in our bodies, our cities, our eyes, in order to better observe coincidences and broadcast them to a higher relevance.
The two have developed a shared language to describe the essence of invisible relationships, painting transects that contain chance encounters with cats, kids, orchids, skateboards and seascapes. Tunstall and Plock take turns extracting observations, echoing forms, and releasing characters to redirect energy across narrative arcs through their serendipitous realms.
This dialectic ritual is central to Tunstall and Plock’s natural curiosity and love of process as both a means and an end.
While their spaces and materials are shared, their individual gestures have their own electric modes of operating. Tunstall’s painterly figures belong to a spiritual order; an extended family of adaptive sirens, shrimp, and plants- dynamically hovering above, below, and within, dissolving hindrances to human perception in the natural world.
Plock’s fractal figures thrust through space, defined by finding power and renewal in transition, prismatic color, and their sheer will to keep going. Tunstall’s veiled protectors dance with Plock’s auratic heroes like a nocturne for daytime. The work glows even brighter in the dark.
Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock are set firmly at the center of California’s new contemporary movement, combining Tunstall’s elegant surrealist leanings with Plock’s deep roots within San Francisco’s respected skate culture.