Kelly Grace's painting might be described as close-up views of far away feelings. Appearing by turns like stills from classic film, anonymous Polaroids in found album, or half-remembered flashes of a recurring dream, they wander the misty spaces between memory and fiction. This tasks also leads Grace to imbues her work with a sense of autonomy, often using themes of mystery, desire, and strength to portray women in the leading roles of their own lives. Other symbolic and cinematic cues - the cold reflection in a pair of reading glasses, a closed hand on a rotary phone receiver, a sidelong glance through a rear view mirror - are narrative openings, road signs we might follow to imagine the story unfolding beyond the frame. whether mnemonic, melancholic, or both, Grace's painted world's are all about perception: the lense through which we look backward, forward, and inward.