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Mar 31, 2017 · Mike Kelley's Untitled (Paddle for Artist's Space), 1992 is available here on Artspace. Your titles were a vehicle, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, to add another layer. You have never used “untitled” extensively. I always associate “untitled” with a lack of courage or fear of being overly explicit. As if the artist dosen’t want to ...
Mike Kelley is widely considered one of the most influential artists of our time. Originally from a suburb outside of Detroit, Kelley attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before moving to Southern California in 1976 to study at California Institute of the Arts from which he received an MFA in 1978.
Sep 7, 2011 · Kelley is one of art's conflaters, of high art and low comedy, popular and unpopular culture, theory and idiocy, bad taste and good ideas. His bunker is a fairground Plato's cave of black resinous ...
Oct 13, 2023 · From his student years on, Mike Kelley (1954-2012) worked in the genre of performance, taking his inspiration from militant feminist practices to put forward an innovative approach to artmaking that overturned the canon. He was a member of various music bands throughout his life, starting in 1974 with the proto-punk band Destroy All Monsters ...
Mike. Kelley. American, 1954 — 2012. Singular and subversive, Mike Kelley's oeuvre had a deep influence on conceptual art in the 1980s up to the 2000s. For a time involved in the West Coast punk scene, in particular anti-rock, the American plastic artist developed a unique oeuvre that is at once underground and full of erudite references and ...
Mar 8, 2017 · Mike Kelley’s last major piece is installed on the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, not far from his real childhood home (top right) in the suburb of Westland, Mich. Credit...
Mike Kelley. Untitled. 1990. An artist who has worked in performance, music, sculpture, and installation art, Kelley mines American vernacular culture in a practice that has been described as "an aesthetics of delinquency." Kelley claims that the materials in this piece are not meant to suggest childhood comforts but were chosen instead for ...
