As she expresses it, "My work is part accidental and part planned. I have a vision most certainly, but will not manipulate the final outcome, and I am always surprised by what is revealed. It's much like a dream where all the seemingly insignificant fragments that happen throughout the day form a story to relay messages from the subconscious that facilitate growth. It is like a tree knows to grow somehow green. These messages from our unconscious are one of the greatest gifts we are presented with, from our Selves, to ourselves.”

Her art education began as she traveled around the world. In the process, she interacted with artists in Morocco, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Paris, London, Spain, and Israel. She met with, among others, Tumarkin in Israel, Portanier in the South of France, and Raul Corrales in Cuba (Fidel Castro's and Che Guevara's press photographer during the revolution).

She counts as her influences Andre Breton, Marie Louise Von Franz, Carl Jung, Nikola Tesla, pigeons, magnets, soil, Goethe, Kienholz, Robert Rauschenberg, Basquiat and Mathew Barney.

Keilly's work has been called "visually arresting" by curator Alison Gingeras; and "intense and wild" by Knight Landesman, publisher of Artforum. Mark Greenfield, curator of the Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles, stated, "Her work breaks with convention in its pure honesty and unpretentiousness, and to the extent to which it displays little semblance of self consciousness, it is refreshingly original. The work stimulates dialogue on contemporary issues of politics, race, consumerism, cultural anthropology and a myriad of other subjects that inform our approach to social interaction. Her complex arrangement of visual elements creates layers of meaning that challenge us to unfamiliar realms of introspection."

Keilly has shown her work at galleries on both coasts. Her work has been exhibited in worldwide exhibitions, including the internationally recognized Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Schatzalp Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, in conjunction with the Davos world economic forum. Director Mike Mills chose her work for an exhibition thematically tied to his Sundance award winning film Thumbsucker, and her work was featured in Look Look magazine. She is one of the youngest artists to be included in the prestigious Cedars Sinai collection, which was the inspiration of the eminent contemporary art collector, Frederic Weisman. Her growing stature has resulted in numerous commissions by prominent art collectors throughout Europe and the United States.