About me

I’m Jerry Wellman, an artist, and curator at Axle Contemporary mobile art gallery.

You can contact me via email at jerrywellman1@gmail.com 
or check out my instagram @jerrywellmanarts

My work as an artist explores the realm of the non-rational narrative. They are not abstract, yet they also do not fit into the confines of an easily understandable narrative. Instead, they exist on a fragile border between storytelling and poetry, between rational and irrational, between didactic and incomprehensible. Like language, like perception, like quanta.

My paintings and drawings have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Holly Solomon Gallery in New York City, Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, The Downey Museum, The Orange County Center of Contemporary Art in California, The El Paso Museum of Art, The Revolving Museum in Boston, SITE Santa Fe, The Navajo Nation Museum, and other venues throughout The US.

I’ve taught at the Pasadena College of Art and Design, CalArts, and New Mexico State University. I was formerly the head curator at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art.

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Jerry Wellman is a Santa Fe based artist whose cultural work includes curatorial projects, performance, writing, and studio production. His unique art actions involve public participation. As a former carny his art has a vernacular feel as he seeks to spark imagination. Wellman earned an MFA from CalArts. His painting drawing and video have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Awards of note include: Art Matters Foundation Grant, LINE Grant, Puffin Grant, Ucross Artist in Residency, and an NEA grant.

I also have a TEDxTalk on Axle Contemporary you can view here.