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“Kelynn Alder is a fantastic artist, a serious professional and a wonderful human being. Her empathy with her subjects comes across clearly in her faithful, rich and nuanced portraiture, and she is truly a master of a wide range of techniques. Gifted, experienced and centered, Kelynn Alder is the real thing.”
“Kelynn Alder’s Coney Island collection is like a wild dream you know you should wake up from, but it’s too fascinating to leave just yet. And despite the artifice of the subjects’ costumes, their joy is genuine. Alder paints happiness as real as the relief of misfits who finally found a welcoming tribe.”
“Through her art, Kelynn provides the viewer with an inspiring way to experience her lifetime of focused commitment to documenting people, their cultures and oftentimes an unseen view of the corners of the world in which we live.”
“What Arthur B. Davies did for Ashcan artists and Warhol did for Campbell’s Soup cans, Kelynn Alder has done for Coney Island. With her trained eye and expert painterly technique, she has transfigured a slice of mundane life into the realm of high art. Like her wondrous Mexican street scenes, she has shed her kindly artistic light on what is often viewed as the quintessence of vulgarity and enabled us to see the beauty and the energy in America’s ionic Amusement Park. In so doing she has made some important icons of her own.”