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JACQUE LYNN KELLER has been drawing and painting since she was 8 years old. In the farm country of northwest Ohio, she was encouraged by teachers and family to explore this passion. Throughout her childhood she was a student at the Toledo Museum of Art’s Youth Studies Program. Jacque began painting professionally in the early 1980’s after attending the University of Toledo and Arizona State University’s School of Art. She began as a muralist and specializes in trompe l’oeil and commissioned artwork. One of Jacque’s goals is image diversity…”Each painting has its own lessons for me. I am an explorer of color and form…you will see everything from portraiture to non-representational work. I need diversity in painting as in life. I want the viewer to think, to smile, to enjoy…”
Jacque is a signature member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters. “Nature Watch” was exhibited to great reviews in England. It is now in the registry at the Royal Academy of Art, London. In recent years, she has been in numerous international and national exhibitions including those in England, Washington, Louisiana, Florida, Illinois and Arizona including a solo and group exhibitions at the Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, Arizona. “Mama”, a realistic portrait of her deceased 99 year-old grandmother, was included in a national exhibition in Florida honoring the history of women. She was the winning artist in the national art competition for the 1998 Bashas-Chandler Ostrich Festival, Arizona, creating the colorful ostriches in “Where’s the Party?” In January 2004 her work, Hope, was included in a national War Forum Exhibition in Chicago. In March 2004, her work Red Corners was included in an International Exhibition of ISAP in Seattle, WA. The City of Chandler (AZ) commissioned Jacque to paint three large paintings of their historic downtown; they hang in the city’s Planning & Development Office. Silent Without You and other works by Jacque were used by the Chandler Center for the Arts (AZ) as the featured artwork in their 2005-06 yearly event brochure and playbills. In March of 2006--at the request of the Glendale, AZ, Arts Commission, Jacque produced the program cover and invitation art for Glendale (Arizona) Celebrates the Artists; the original will be part of Glendale’s permanent collection. Along with a two-artist show at Casa Bella in Park City, Utah, in May 2006, Jacque’s piece Raining Tomatoes was included in the Expressions West Exhibition at the Coos Museum of Art in Oregon.
Jacque’s works on wood and canvas are included in prestigious private, corporate, and public collections, and are eagerly collected and commissioned nationwide. She is currently working on high-end rugs designs for Rugs of Kaibab, AZ. Her work is represented by Casa Bella Design Center, Park City, Utah, and Quan’tum Art, Inc. (Chandler Studio Showrooms).
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