INTRODUCTION

by Michael Wolf

A rising star in Cleveland’s art scene, Newell’s emotional, figurative sculpture is instantly compelling and leaves one wanting to know more. We first found her work in the window of our framer’s shop and found our way back to her studio in an old industrial building. There we met the brilliant, hard-working artist amidst a gaggle of other captivating work, leading to WOLFS’ first exhibition of work by a younger-living artist.

Kristen is a trained, talented, highly motivated artist with an emotional sensitivity to our ever more tumultuous world. She doesn’t need to search for subjects, she has more to say than she can physically create. Her primary medium of clay really suits the strong softness of her mostly figural compositions.

Sometimes you see things for which you can’t reconcile your attraction. Even though, over the past few years, Kristen has become an important part of the gallery, there still remains a beautiful mystery in her work that we all revere.