Give To The Pull: Jess Kellner
Jess Kellner's Give to the Pull is an intimate and reflective body of work examining vulnerability, presence, and the tension between surrender and control. Across these paintings, Kellner explores what it means to yield-to emotion, to instinct, to the quiet gravity that draws us toward one another. Figures appear suspended between motion and stillness, their gestures caught in the space between tension and release. Each composition feels like a held breath, cinematic and tender, informed by Kellner's background in acting and film. Through diffused light and soft gradients, he studies the fragility and resilience of the human condition, revealing how vulnerability can coexist with strength. Ultimately, Give to the Pull contemplates how beauty arises in uncertainty, offering a space to slow down, to feel, and to remember what it means to be human.
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.
