Alysha Kostelny

Studio Member since 2016

b. 1984

Born and raised in Chicago, Alysha Kostelny currently lives on the Northwest Side. Kostelny’s approach to art-making is driven by experimentation, curiosity, and an exploration of various surfaces, textures, and applications of paint. She enjoys researching modern and contemporary artists, gleaning inspiration from myriad concepts and processes. Kostelny has a natural inclination toward hard-edge abstraction, though her work often straddles both abstraction and representation. Drawn to simplified organic forms and geometric shapes, she translates source imagery (often referencing art history, architecture, or the natural world) through reductive, bold color fields.

“Painting is  something that resembles you, it’s something you’ve seen or like.. I get inspiration from other artists. I’m inspired by Richard Diebenkorn and like learning about other abstract painters.”