Kelly Kozma: Watch Me Backflip Solo Installation at Paradigm

Paradigm Gallery + Studio is pleased to present Watch Me Backflip, a solo exhibition featuring the work of mixed media and fibers artist Kelly Kozma. Watch Me Backflip embraces ideas of reusing material, interconnectedness, and the significance of the smallest interaction on a much larger environment. Entering her 14th year working with Paradigm, Kozma will be unveiling a massive culmination documenting her career and process-intensive work. The artist is celebrating her personal relationships, archiving methods, and resilience with a massive 22-foot circumference installation comprised of 35,000 hand-stitched circles cut from various repurposed materials. The cosmic work titled Iguana & Myrrh, Magma & Reef, consists of everyday objects like greeting cards, food packaging, and thread expertly woven and given new life as bursts of color and pattern in the largest scale the artist has ever attempted. Kozma is purposefully engaging in a minimal-waste practice where even paper scraps and loose threads from the installation will find new life within over 20 mixed media works that will call to the large assemblage. As she stitches these lovingly collected pieces, Kozma creates connections between the people in her life and the objects she interacts with, inspiring mindfulness against overconsumption and emotional apathy.

Kelly Kozma: Watch Me Backflip will be on view on the first floor of the Paradigm Arts Building (12 N 3rd St) from May 2 through June 1, 2025, with a public opening reception on Friday, May 2nd from 6–8pm.