Profile

Press

Nathan Dang and Kelly Packer at VAC
(Boise Weekly - Aug 10, 2011)

Bones and Piss
Artist Kelly Packer exalts the commonplace
Featured artist article by Katy Dang
(Boise Weekly - Nov 8, 2006)

New Boise program gives temporary homes to artistic process
(Idaho Statesman - Feb 5, 2009)

Bio

Kelly Packer is an artist and front-end web developer living in Boise, Idaho.

Kelly Packer was born and raised in Montana. Her artwork combines identifiable, organic shapes and unrecognizable forms in vibrant large scale paintings and intimate works on paper. Her work has appeared in galleries and alleys from Massachusetts to Ontario and in various books and literary journals. Her paintings were chosen for the 2010 Boise Art Museum Triennial exhibition and in 2009 she was awarded an artist in residency through BODO’s AiR program. She often collaborates on projects with her husband, the poet Adrian Kien. They spent a year living in France, where Kelly explored the landscape and created new bodies of work. She is co-founder of Enso Artspace, an artist collective with an exhibition space located in Garden City, Idaho. ensoartspace.com