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 their formal elements—the afghans, for example, for their abstract patterns.
Gallery label from Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, November 21, 2007-July 28, 2008.
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque
Feb 10–May 21, 1996
1 other work identified
Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque
Feb 10–May 21, 1996
1 other work identified
Open Ends
Sep 28, 2000–Mar 4, 2001
1 other work identified
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Nov 21, 2007–Jul 21, 2008
5 other works identified
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Nov 21, 2007–Jul 21, 2008
6 other works identified
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Nov 21, 2007–Jul 21, 2008
8 other works identified
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Nov 21, 2007–Jul 21, 2008
3 other works identified
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