For large-scale watercolor painter Keri Oldham, a years-long devotion to discovering and uplifting the work of local emerging artists in New York City led to a new discovery altogether: the evolution of her own work. “In 2011, I co-founded Field Projects gallery, a small project space in Chelsea that focuses on showing emerging artists’ work,” […]

For large-scale watercolor painter Keri Oldham, a years-long devotion to discovering and uplifting the work of local emerging artists in New York City led to a new discovery altogether: the evolution of her own work.
“In 2011, I co-founded Field Projects gallery, a small project space in Chelsea that focuses on showing emerging artists’ work,” Keri shares. “NYC can be incredibly overwhelming in terms of building a community for yourself as an artist. For me, Field Projects was a way of stepping into those waters and showing some of the amazing artists’ work I was seeing in the city. I left the gallery about three years ago to focus on my own painting. In many ways it was a difficult decision shifting from curating other people?s work to investing in myself and my own artistic journey. But it has been a revelation, I?ve gone down the rabbit hole!” No stranger to her current South Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, Keri has found herself rooted in the area in one way or another for the past eight years. A little over a year ago she found her current studio, a 275-square-f...