Give To The Pull: Jess Kellner

Opening December 14 — Jess Kellner’s Online Exhibition Give to the Pull Examines

Vulnerability, Presence, and the Tension Between Surrender and Control

In this intimate and reflective body of work, Kellner explores what it means to surrender to emotion, to instinct, to the quiet gravity that draws us toward one another. His paintings unfold as cinematic moments suspended between motion and stillness, drawing from his background in acting and film to study the fragility and resilience of the human condition.

Figures emerge and recede through diffused light and soft gradients, their gestures caught between tension and release. Each composition feels like a held breath, an invitation to yield to the current rather than resist it. Through this visual language, Kellner investigates how vulnerability can coexist with strength, and how beauty often arises in moments of uncertainty.

At its core, Give to the Pull considers the balance between control and surrender, how we navigate the invisible forces that shape our relationships, memories, and sense of self. “Through this age of immediacy and distraction,” Kellner notes, “art can create a space for us to be with ourselves, to remember what it means to be human.”

Give to the Pull will be viewable exclusively online via ALLGORITHIM’s platform and Artsy.