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Mike Kelley, Shaped Paintings at Skarstedt Gallery

The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter)#6
The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter) #6: Fall, 1994 By Mike Kelley (All Photos By Gail)

Skarstedt’s Chelsea gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of Mike Kelley’s shaped paintings, never before seen as a group. Dating from the early to mid-1990s, this body of work demonstrates Kelley’s return to the medium following a 15-year span of performance, multimedia and installation art. Deconstructing the canon of modernist color and composition, the paintings manifest Kelley’s psychological road map through images recovered from his memory. Continue reading Mike Kelley, Shaped Paintings at Skarstedt Gallery