Kelly Flynn currently lives in Miami and is attending The University of Miami full time, majoring in photography.  Before moving to Miami two years ago, Kelly attended Texas Woman’s University in her hometown of Denton, TX.  There she was introduced to the world of photography through her professor Susan kae Grant. Kelly is also a long time member of the Society of Photographic Education, and in 2004 she was the Student Scholarship Award Winner for the SPE in Newport, RI. She also has participated in seminars at Landmark Education and was published in the Photographer's Forum, "Best of Photography" Annual for the "Lower East Side Doors" series as well as "The Housing Project”.

Other themes in her work involve self-portraits representing gender equality, common stereotypes and roll play dealing with issues of feminism. Other projects include photographs of graffiti in the streets and bathrooms of New York City, The Housing Project in Miami, FL and her very popular iLatex Series of photographs and animated video projections.

Artist Statement

iLatex

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This ongoing body of work is being produced to inspire women everywhere to stand up and be seen equal to men in society. My body is fully painted in a studio setting with liquid latex to create each character.  Once the body has been painted and dried, (usually a 5 hour process) a gloss protectant is then sprayed as a sealant.  Only a few props are real objects.  The body is presented nude to leave visible the focus of a female gender.

After the photo-shoot and impromptu performance, the images are imported into Adobe Photoshop and transformed into fast stop-action video projections for the wall.  The characters, once animated take on a cartoonish personality of their own; they resemble toys in a plastic-fake reality.  In the video projections, the characters become larger than life and the woman under the male “costumes” dominates the room.  Besides the videos, 5 full-size 20X30” digital photographs, of each character accompany their relating videos.  So far the series includes; the President of the United States, a cowboy, a boxer, a ninja, and the all-American superhero, Superman.

I choose to portray these male types on a woman’s skin to show the strength, beauty and dignity of all women. I use my body to make humorous and political statements in order to break through doors that seem to limit women’

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