Mike Kelley
1954–2012
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Biography
Michael "Mike" Kelley (October 27, 1954 in Wayne, Michigan – c. January 31, 2012 in South Pasadena) was an American artist. His work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler and John Miller. Writing in The New York Times, in 2012, Holland Cotter described the artist as "one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion."
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Mike Kelley Bruce Nauman, ‘From Hand to Mouth’, 1967
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Mike Kelley Yayoi Kusama, ‘Driving Image: Show’, 1964 (installation view)
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Mike Kelley Andy Warhol, ‘Window Display for the Bonwit Teller Deprtment Store’, New York, 1960
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Mike Kelley Channel One, Channel Two, and Channel Three
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Mike Kelley Destruction of Michelangelo’s ‘Pietà’ by László Toth
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Mike Kelley Allen Jones, ‘Table, Chair, Hat Stand’, 1969
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Features
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Art Term
Formlessness
Formlessness is a concept, first introduced by French writer-philosopher Georges Bataille, who argued that art should be brought ‘down in ...
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Tate Etc
The supernatural powers of plywood: Tate Modern Display
Mike Kelley’s Channel One, Channel Two and Channel Three 1994, now on display at Tate Modern, is a potent ...
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Tate Etc
Rudely transgressing the boundaries between the elevated and the profane
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Tate Etc
It's all about the process
Doug Aitken at Tate Liverpool – The American artist has created his first public realm installation in the UK, featuring conversations ...
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Tate Papers
David Musgrave: Faulty Images
This paper takes as its starting point two drawings by David Musgrave in Tate’s collection, Plane with inverted figure ...
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Tate Etc
Mike Nelson in conversation
To coincide with Mike Nelson representing Britain at the 54th Venice Biennale of Art, Tate curator Clarrie Wallis talks to ...
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Tate Etc
Staring into the contemporary abyss: The contemporary sublime
In the early eighteenth century Joseph Addison described the notion of the sublime as something that ‘fills the mind with ...
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Tate Etc
If at first you don't succeed, celebrate: Failure
Lisa Le Feuvre on Failure, Tate Etc issue 19, Spring 2010 -
Tate Etc
Where the wild things are: Animals
When Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping was forced to expel the beasties that inhabited his Theater of the World he ...
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Tate Etc
But is it installation art?
What does the term ‘installation art’ mean? Does it apply to big dark rooms that you stumble into to watch ...
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