Kelly Berning Sculptures

ARTIST STATEMENT 

The most recent series, “The Carnival Series” is a study on carnival lifestyles.  The idea of blending in or becoming somebody else for a night intrigues me.  Then off to a new town with a new audience that has never seen you before and will never see you again.     Who is the person behind the mask?  What does that person become when the show is over? Have they found their place in the circus because what they see in the crowd is a predictable society painting upon basic self-indulgence, lethargy, and insensitivity?  “In a circus you didn’t have to-weren’t supposed to avert your eyes, and that may have been its ultimate kick” (Edward Hoagland in Circus Music).