 Mike Kelley's Frankenstein, 1989 Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is one of the most influential artists to emerge from west coast art scene in the United States since the 1980s. His work involves stuffed animals, textile banners and carpets, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video. His oeuvre is often discussed by critics as engaging with the concept of Abjection. He staged his most ambitious show to date in November/December 2005, "Day is Done," filling Gagosian Gallery with funhouse-like multimedia installations, including automated furniture, as well as films of dream-like ceremonies inspired by high school year book photos of pageants, sports matches and theater productions. [1] In December 2005, Village Voice art critic Jerry Saltz cited "Day is Done" as a pioneering example of "clusterfuck aesthetics," the tendency towards overloaded multimedia environments in contemporary art. [2] Image File history File linksMetadata KelleyFrankenstein. ...
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Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...
Video (Latin for I see, first person singular present, indicative of videre, to see) is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion. ...
The term Abjection literally means the state of being cast out. ...
The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ...
Senior Art Critic critic for the Village Voice, Jerry Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. ...
Mike Kelley was born in Wayne, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit in 1954. He was brought up with the city's music scene which spawned such bands as Iggy and the Stooges, and he was a member of Destroy All Monsters. He moved to Los Angeles in 1978 where he attended the California Institute of the Arts and started to work on a series of projects in which he explored quite a loose or poetic theme, such as The Sublime, Monkey Island and Plato's cave, Lincoln's Profile, using a variety of different media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and writing. Kelley started to gain recognition outside Los Angeles in the mid-eighties with the sculptural objects and installations from the series Half-a-Man and have since then exhibited in galleries and museums in other countries[citation needed] and participated in art events such as Documenta 9. Fans of the music group Sonic Youth will be familiar with his work from the cover and booklet of their 1992 record Dirty. There was a retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 1993. He has been showing with Metro Pictures, New York since 1982. Wayne is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ...
Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815 County Wayne County Mayor...
Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Stooges are an American rock band that was first active from about 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003. ...
Niagara is an internationally acknowledged musician and silk screen artist who briefly collaborated with Andy Warhol. ...
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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
Entrance to CalArts on McBean Parkway The California Institute of the Arts is commonly referred to as CalArts. ...
Drawing involves the choice of one or more tools from a wide variety and the choice of a support appropriate to that tool in order to make marks. ...
For building painting, see painter and decorator. ...
A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ...
from documenta 6 documenta is one of the world‘s most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art which now takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. ...
Sonic Youth is a seminal American alternative rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ...
Dirty is an album by Sonic Youth that was originally released on July 21, 1992. ...
The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. ...
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Kelley was also in the band Poetics with fellow California Institute of the Arts students John Miller and Tony Oursler. Entrance to CalArts on McBean Parkway The California Institute of the Arts is commonly referred to as CalArts. ...
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Tony Ourlser - American artist born in 1957. ...
Kelley's work is inspired by as diverse sources as history, philosophy, politics, underground rock music, decorative arts and working-class artistic expression. His art often takes up class and gender issues as well as issues of normality, criminality and perversion. History studies the past in human terms. ...
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Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ...
Kelley is currently a faculty member in the graduate department of fine art at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
A selection of representative works
- "Half-a-Man", 1987-91, Series of objects, drawings and installations
- "Pay for Your Pleasure", 1988, Installation
- "Heidi", 1992, Video (in collaboration with Paul McCarthy)
- "Mike Kelley's Proposal for the Decoration of an Island of Conference Rooms (with Copy Room) for an Advertising Agency Designed by Frank Gehry", 1992, Public Art
Paul McCarthy (born in 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a performance artist who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. ...
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