With a fresh interpretation of the Color Field Movement tenets, painter Kelly Neidig’s main interest is color – what light can do to it and how it can be used to evoke our basic emotions: fulfillment and longing, love and sorrow, our motivations and memories… 
 
Neidig finds inspiration from her intrigue with urban sprawl and it’s inexorable consumption of forests and farmlands.  Through her art, Neidig works to reconcile feelings of both fascination and dismay with man’s ceaseless encroachment into nature with fabrication; power lines, strip malls and box stores, housing developments, billboards, gas stations and fast food restaurants.  Wishing to avoid in her landscapes these un-natural creations but finding it unavoidable, she chooses instead to abstract them with brightly colored stripes representing details of the landscape that vanish to the horizon and are juxtaposed against unadulterated skies.
 
Neidig’s bold bands of color create a motion which draws us into their atmosphere where the space, light and color combinations evoke memories, making our visit a personal interpretation of the place we’ve been taken.  Explored more closely, the individual stripes pull us into an even more intimate relationship with the environments and emotions they cull from us.
 
Neidig works in the abstract, with no need to represent any specific thing.  The complexities of Neidig’s landscapes derive from the narrative they speak – that of the inter-dependence between man and nature, and the effects wrought from this relationship.