HIGH ART 2020 SPOTLIGHT: KELLY MCKERNAN
“Cathexis”
Kelly McKernan (@kelly_mckernan) is an independent artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, working primarily in watercolors and acryla gouache. She documents in vibrant colors the journey of women through luminescent dream worlds and the eternal relevance of the feminine principle. Kelly works with notable gallery spaces as Spoke Art, Gallery 1988, Arch Enemy Arts, Modern Eden, and more. She has also created illustrations for Dark Horse Comics, Stranger Things, Magic: The Gathering, and Star Wars, to name a few. In addition to maintaining a large social media following, Kelly also teaches and travels for events and conventions throughout the US.
She entered “Cathexis” during High Art 2020.
See all the art submitted to High Art 2020 at: High Art Finalists
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High Art was created by Dona Frank and The Natural Cannabis Company in 2014 as a crowdsourcing solution to packaging design. From its humble beginnings, High Art has developed into an internationally-known art competition with thousands of entries annually from 100+ countries all over the world.
Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $50,000 in prize money and to see their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.
Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $50,000 in prize money and to see their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.Each year professional and amateur artists create themed works through a variety of mediums to compete for $50,000 in prize money and to see their work featured on packaging, social media, at the High Art gallery in Santa Rosa, CA and displayed at prestigious art events, in the United States and abroad.