Mike Kelley
MoMA PS1
October 13, 2013 – February 2, 2014
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Bed Wetter One, 1974
Mixed media on paper
24 x 19" (60 x 48.3 cm)
Collection Margaret and Daniel S. Loeb
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
New!, 1974
Mixed media on paper
24 x 19" (60 x 48.2 cm)
The Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Rib Cage, 1974
Mixed media on paper
24 x 18" (60 x 45.7 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Elegy to the Symbionese Liberation Army, 1975
Acrylic, ink and graphite on paper
24 x 36" (60.9 x 91.4 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Parallel Personality Development, 1975
Mixed media on paper
24 x 19" (60 x 48.3 cm)
Collection De Bruin-Heijn
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Shrimp, Head, Pot, 1976
Mixed media on paper
18 3/4 x 27" (47.6 x 68.6 cm)
Falckenberg Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Last Tool In Use, 1977
Wood, acrylic, metal
29 x 21 3/4 x 3" (73.7 x 55.3 x 7.6 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Birdhouse for a Bird that is Near and a Bird That is Far, 1978
Wood, acrylic, metal
27 9/16 x 37 x 11" (70 x 94 x 28 cm)
Private collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Catholic Birdhouse, 1978
Wood, paint, composite shingles
3 parts: 22 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2" (55.9 x 47 x 47 cm)
Private collection, New York
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Diagram for My Space Performance, 1978
Ink on board
10 1/2 x 8" (26.7 x 20.3 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Gothic Birdhouse, 1978
Wood, Plexiglas, paint
19 x 13 x 14" (48.3 x 33 x 35.6 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Infinity Birdhouse, 1978
Paint, wood, lightbulb
20 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 16 3/4" (51.1 x 54.9 x 42.5 cm)
Private Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Two Sound Producing Objects From A Dream 1977-78, 1978
Wood, metal
2 parts, part 1:17 x 9 x 7" (43.2 x 22.9 x 17.8 cm)
part 2:16 x 8 x 8" (40.6 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Wide Bird to Tall Bird, 1978
Wood, paint
11 1/2 x 40 1/2 x 12" (29.2 x 102.9 x 30.5 cm)
Private collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Worldly Problems, 1978
Acrylic on paper
49 1/4 x 26 1/2" (125.1 x 67.3 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Birdhouse with an Egg Chute (A Collaboration: the bird has to build the
floor so the eggs won't roll out), 1979
Wood, acrylic, glass
39 1/2 x 13 x 10" (100.3 x 33 x 25.4 cm)
Collection of Margaret and Daniel S. Loeb
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Monitor and the Merrimac (Performance Prop Models), 1979
Enamel on mat board, gelatin sulver prints
The Monitor: 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 9 3/4" (6.4 x 9.5 x 24.8 cm)
The Merrimac: 1 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 10 3/8" (4.4 x 12.1 x 26.4 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Partial and
promised gift of Blake Byrne
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Poltergeist, 1979
Gelatin silver prints
7 parts, 1 photograph: 40 x 27 1/2" (101.6 x 69.9 cm)
1 photograph: 40 x 62 1/2" (101.6 x 158.8 cm)
Text photograph: 40 x 33" (101.6 x 83.8 cm)
4 photographs: 40 x 30" (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Ringier Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Past, 1980
Acrylic on paper
18 x 24" (45.7 x 60 cm)
Joni and Monte Gordon Family Trust, Los Angeles
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Future, 1980
Acrylic on paper
18 x 24" (45.7 x 60 cm)
Joni and Monte Gordon Family Trust, Los Angeles
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Banana Man Costume, 1981
Cotton, linen
Hat: 7 1/2" (19.1 cm); shirts and pants: men's small
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Early American Landscape #2, 1980
Acrylic on canvas with painted cardboard frame
25 1/2 x 25 1/2" (64.8 x 64.8 cm)
The Robert A. Rowan Collection, Pasadena
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Early American Landscape #1, 1982-1983
Acrylic on canvas with painted cardboard frame
31 1/2 x 31 1/2" (80 x 80 cm)
The Robert A. Rowan Collection, Pasadena
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Logo on a Can of Vernors Drawn from Memory, 1981
Acrylic on paper
20 x 15" (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The One-Eyed King, 1981/2012
Piezo print on paper, exhibition copy
9 1/4 x 6 3/4" (23.5 x 17.1 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Amber-Gray, 1982
Colored wax, glass bell jar, wooden base, painted by the artist
7 x 7 x 7" (17.8 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Ambergris Landscape (from Monkey Island series), 1982
Acrylic on paper
Without frame: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4" (26.7 x 20.9 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Cell Dividing, 1982
Acrylic on sheet metal, wood
16 x 28 x 6 3/8" (40.6 x 71.1 x 16.2 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Lannan
Foundation
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Expansions, 1982
Acrylic on brown paper
Part 1: 86 x 87" (218.4 x 221 cm)
part 2: 15 1/2 x 14 3/4 x 5" (39.4 x 37.5 x 12.7 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El Paso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Fence Figure / Compound Eye, 1982
Gelatin silver print, acrylic, ink
4 3/8 x 6 3/8" (11.1 x 16.2 cm)
Collection Peter Norton
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Infinite Multiplication, 1982
Acrylic on foam core
4 parts: 43 1/8 x 160" (109.5 x 406.4 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El Paso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Personality Crisis, 1982
3 parts: acrylic on graph paper
Each: 22 1/2 x 28 1/2" (57.1 x 72.4 cm)
Private collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Banana Man, 1983
Video: color/sound
28 min., 15 sec.
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Tiny Insect Magnified Becomes It's Own Farm, 1982-1983
Acrylic on paper
56 x 42 1/8" (142.2 x 107 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El PAso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Infinite Expansion, 1983
Acrylic on paper
7 parts, superimposed
overall: 140 x 140" (355.6 x 355.6 cm)
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The One-Eyed Parrot, 1983
Acrylic on paper
36 3/4 x 17" (93.3 x 43.2 cm)
Private collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary,
1984
Synthetic polymer on paper
69 x 48" (175.3 x 121.9 cm)
Sender Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Janitorial Banner, 1984
Glued felt, wood
49 x 17 x 2" (124.5 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm)
Collection Joel Wachs
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Know Nothing, 1984
Synthetic polymer on paper
42 x 28" (106.7 x 71.1 cm)
Sender Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Silent Scream, 1984
Acrylic on paper
37 3/8 x 37 7/8" (94.9 x 96.2 cm)
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
A Hippie's Bedroom, 1985
Wax on carpet, candle
70 3/4 x 70 3/4" (179.7 x 179.7 cm)
Wendy Gondeln
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Alphabet and Bee-Beard, 1985
Acrylic on paper
56 x 42" (142.2 x 106.7 cm)
Collection Barry Sloane
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Freedom, 1985
Ketchup on canvas framed in artist-painted and artist-constructed
frame
79 x 43" (200.6 x 109.2 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Lincoln's Beacon, 1985
Glued felt on canvas
69 x 69" (175.3 x 175.3 cm)
Private collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Nazi War Cave #1, 1985
Acrylic on paper
68 7/8 x 104" (175 x 264.2 cm)
Collection Joe Austin
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Rainbow Coalition (from Plato's Cave), 1985
Acrylic on unstretched canvas
102 3/4 x 88 3/4" (260 x 225.4 cm)
Courtesy David Zwirner
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Sic Semper Tyrannis, 1985
Acrylic on board
3 parts, each: 48 x 48" (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
overall: 48 x 144" (121.9 x 365.8 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Nazi War Cave #2, 1986
Acrylic on paper
60 x 87 1/2" (152.4 x 222.3 cm)
Private collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled, 1986
Acrylic on carpet, artist-painted and artist-constructed frame
60 3/4 x 49 3/4" (156.9 x 126.4 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Black-Eyed Susan, 1987
Glued felt, ribbons, buttons
96 5/8 x 59 7/8" (245.5 x 152 cm)
Goetz Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Incorrect Sexual Model: Hermaphrodite, 1987
Acrylic on wood panel
72 x 48" (182.9 x 121.9 cm)
The Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Incorrect Sexual Model: Mommy's Penis, 1987
Acrylic on wood panel
72 x 48" (182.9 x 121.9 cm)
Collection S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Let's Talk, 1987
Glued felt
94 1/2 x 59" (240 x 149.8 cm)
Goetz Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid, 1987
Found handmade stuffed animals and afghans on canvas, dried corn
96 x 127 x 5" (243.8 x 322.6 x 12.7 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, Purchase, with funds from the
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts / Kelley Studio Inc.
The Wages of Sin, 1987
wax candles on wood, metal base (exhibition replica)
52 x 23 x 23" (132.1 x 58.4 x 58.4 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds
from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 89.13a-d
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Pay For Your Pleasure, 1987
Oil on tyvek, 43 banners, donation box, work of art by local murderer
or criminal, 2 donation boxes (collecting money to be given to a
victim's rights organization)
144 x 108 x 984" (365.8 x 274.3 x 2499.4 cm)
Banners: 96" (243.8 cm) each
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Timothy P. and
Suzette L. Flood
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Three Point Program / Four Eyes, 1987
Glued felt with ribbon
94 x 59" (238.8 x 149.9 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Trash Picker, 1987
Glued felt
94 1/2 x 59" (240 x 149.9 cm)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Antiqued (Prematurely Aged), 1987
Painted wood dresser, glass, magazine clippings, objects, mirror,
plywood, ephemera in drawers
Overall: 75 1/2 x 35 7/8 x 22 1/8" (191.8 x 91.1 x 56.2 cm)
dresser: 30 x 33" (76.2 x 83.8 cm)
mirror: 21 x 36 x 16 9/16" (53.3 x 91.4 x 42 cm)
Collection Norman and Norah Stone, San Francisco
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Incorrect Sexual Models: Utopia, 1987
Acrylic on wood panel
Two panels, each: 72 x 24" (182.9 x 60 cm)
Goetz Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Drawing #17, 1988
Acrylic on paper
20 x 40 3/8" (50.8 x 102.6 cm)
Falckenberg Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Drawing #34, 1988
Acrylic on paper
17 7/8 x 22 3/4" (45.4 x 57.8 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Alan N.
Kleinman from the Estate of Marsha Kleinman
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Drawing #58, 1988
Acrylic on paper
30 x 42" (76.2 x 106.7 cm)
Collection Mandy and Cliff Einstein
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Drawing #68, 1988
Acrylic on paper
24 x 36" (60 x 91.4 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Drawing #71, 1988
Acrylic on paper
24 x 30 3/4" (60 x 78.1 cm)
Falckenberg Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Drawing #73, 1988
Acrylic on paper
28 x 42" (71.1 x 106.7 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Reconstructed History: China Relief Expedition, 1989
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10" (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Ascending Hosts, 1989
Glued felt
93 1/2 x 18 x 12 1/2" (237.5 x 45.7 x 31.8 cm)
Wendy and Robert Brandow
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Reconstructed History: Dancing the Quadrille, 1989
Gelatin silver print
8 x 10" (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Descending Order, 1989
Glued felt
93 1/2 x 17 x 16" (237.5 x 43.2 x 40.6 cm)
Sammlung Peter Pakesch
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Estral Star #3, 1989
Found stuffed cloth animals, tied
19 1/16 x 10 1/2 x 5" (48.4 x 26.7 x 12.7 cm)
Ringier Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Eviscerated Corpse, 1989
Stuffed animals
71 1/2 x 99 1/2 x 166" (181.6 x 252.7 x 421.6 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Lannan Foundation
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Bag I, 1989
Acrylic on paper
40 1/4 x 32" (102.3 x 81.3 cm)
Falckenberg Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Girl, 1989
Acrylic on paper
40 x 32" (101.6 x 81.3 cm)
LAC
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kissing Kidneys, 1989
Acrylic on paper
40 1/4 x 32" (102.2 x 81.3 cm)
Ringier Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Male and Female Brain Halves, 1989
Acrylic on paper
40 1/4 x 32" (102.2 x 81.3 cm)
Private Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Manly Craft #2, 1989
Yarn animals, tied
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 1 1/2" (14 x 8.9 x 3.8 cm)
Collection Barry Sloane
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Number One and Number Two, 1989
Found stuffed animals
32 x 16 x 8 3/4" (81.3 x 40.6 x 22.2 cm)
Private Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Stained Glass Mattress, 1989
Mattress with glued felt cover
9 1/4 x 60 1/2 x 80" (23.5 x 156.2 x 203.2 cm)
Goetz Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Reconstructed History: The Capitol Building, 1989
Gelatin silver print
10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Reconstructed History: The Father of Our Country, 1989
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8" (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Reconstructed History: The Gateway to Freedom, 1989
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8" (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Reconstructed History: The Lincoln Memorial, 1989
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8" (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Arena #10 (Dogs), 1990
Stuffed animals on afghan
11 1/2 x 123 x 32" (29.2 x 312.4 x 81.3 cm)
Collection Metro Pictures
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Arena #7 (Bears), 1990
Found stuffed animals, blanket
11 1/2 x 53 x 49" (29.2 x 134.6 x 124.5 cm)
Private Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Arena #8 (Leopard), 1990
Found stuffed animal, blanket
12 x 65 x 43" (30.5 x 165.1 x 109.2 cm)
Collection Per Skarstedt
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Empathy Displacement: Humanoid Morphology (2nd and 3rd remove),
#5, 1990
Acrylic on panel, found handmade doll, painted wood box
2 parts, part 1: 36 1/8 x 24" (91.8 x 60 cm)
part 2: 4 x 9 1/8 x 13 5/8" (10.2 x 23.2 x 34.6 cm)
Linda and Jerry Janger, Los Angeles
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Empathy Displacement: Humanoid Morphology (2nd and 3rd remove),
#7, 1990
Mixed media construction comprising an acrylic painting on panel and
a found homemade doll in a painted wood box
2 parts, part 1: 24 x 19" (60.9 x 48.3 cm)
part 2: 4 x 7 7/8 x 9 1/4" (10.2 x 20 x 23.5 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Alan Hergott
and Curt Shepard
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Empathy Displacement: Humanoid Morphology (2nd and 3rd Remove)
#3, 1990
Mixed media construction comprised of an acrylic painting on panel
and a found handmade doll in a painted wood box
2 parts, part 1: 66 1/8 x 27 1/8" (168 x 68.9 cm)
part 2: 3 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 24 1/2" (8.9 x 26.7 x 62.2 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Alan Hergott
and Curt Shepard
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Four Wire Sculptures, 1990
Mixed media with yarn and wire
Dimenions variable
4 parts, each approx: 20 x 10 x 2 15/16" (50.8 x 25.4 x 7.4 cm)
Collection Blake Byrne, Los Angeles
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Manipulating Mass-Produced Idealized Objects, 1990
Gelatin silver print
14 x 11" (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Nostalgic Depiction of the Innocence of Childhood, 1990
Sepia toned gelatin silver print
14 x 11" (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled (Chokwe Lumumba), 1990
Glued felt banner
93 3/4 x 70 1/2" (238.1 x 179.1 cm)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled (Pasolini), 1990
Glued felt banner
93 3/4 x 70 1/2" (238.1 x 179.1 cm)
Collection Rena Conti, Chicago
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Dialogue #5 (One Hand Clapping), 1991
Blanket, stuffed toy, casette player with audio
17 11/16 × 60 7/16 × 49 3/16" (45 × 156 × 125 cm)
Ringier Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Lumpenprole and Ageistprop, 1991
Lumpenprole: yarn, found objects
Ageistprop: synthetic polymer on paper
Lumpenprole: 240 x 360" (609.6 x 914.4 cm)
Ageistprop: 84 x 60" (213.4 x 153 cm)
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Minor Infraction, 1991
Acrylic on paper
60 x 72" (152.4 x 182.9 cm)
Private collection, courtesy BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled (Communicating Vessels), 1991
Acrylic on paper
60 x 83 3/4" (152.4 x 212.7 cm)
The Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Colema Bench, 1992
Wood, plastic buckets, plastic tubing
84 x 67 x 17" (213.4 x 170.2 x 43.2 cm)
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Colema Board Details, 1992
Gelatin silver print
72 x 48" (182.9 x 121.9 cm)
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Orgone Shed, 1992
Wood, metal, glass wool, paper towels
88 5/8 x 89 x 59" (225 x 226 x 149.9 cm)
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Orgone Shed Plans, 1992
Gelatin silver prints
2 parts, each: 72 x 48" (182.9 x 121.9 cm)
Grässlin Collection, St. Georgen
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Two and Three Dimensions, 1994
Wood, enamel on aluminum, speakers, boom box
Bookshelf: 59 1/16 x 32 x 10" (150 x 81.3 x 25.4 cm)
painting: 66 x 46 1/16" (167.6 x 117 cm)
floor speaker: 14 x 12 x 5 3/4" (35.6 x 30.5 x 14.6 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Collection of Alan
Hergott and Curt Shepard
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled (Study for Untitled #4, Movie Alien series), 1994
Acrylic on paper
35 x 23" (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
Collection Barry Sloane
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled #5, 1994
Acrylic on paper
35 x 23" (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
Private collection, courtesy Marc Jancou Contemporary
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled #6, 1994
Acrylic on paper
35 x 23" (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC)
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Educational Complex, 1995
Acrylic, latex, foam core, fiberglass, wood
51 x 192 x 96" (129.5 x 487.7 x 243.8 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Purchase with funds
from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Backward Masking, 1997
Mixed media on paper
20 x 26" (50.8 x 66 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, courtesy of Patrick Painter Inc.
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Blue Plaid Capp / Brown Plaid Boy, 1997
Mixed media on paper
26 x 20" (66 x 50.8 cm)
Collection Joel Ehrenkranz
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Ecstasy and Me, 1997
Mixed media on paper
26 x 20" (66 x 50.8 cm)
Private collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Fluid Structure, 1997
Mixed media on paper
26 x 20" (66 x 50.8 cm)
Courtesy Metro Pictures
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Grid, 1997
Mixed media on paper
26 x 20" (66 x 50.8 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Plaid Dialogue, 1997
Mixed media on paper
26 x 20" (66 x 50.8 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Red, White and Blue, 1997
Mixed media on paper
26 x 20" (66 x 50.8 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, courtesy Patrick Painter Inc.
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
To the Tune of Batman, 1997
Mixed media on paper
26 x 20" (66 x 50.8 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, courtesy of Patrick Painter Inc.
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Virgin, 1997
Mixed media on paper
29 1/2 x 23 9/16" (75 x 59.8 cm)
Private collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Missing Time Color Exercise #2, 1998
Acrylic on wood panels, magazines, wood, plexiglas
46 x 91" (116.8 x 231.1 cm)
Private Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Performance Related Objects, 1998
Mixed-media installation comprising: The Spirit Collector (1978), Spirit
Voices (1978-79), Indianana‚ Three B/W leitmotif photographs (1978),
Indianana-main prop (1978), Two Machines for the Intellect (1978-79),
The Base Man (1979), Tube Music: Wind and Crickets (1978-79), Tube
Music: The Flying Flower (1977-78), Tube Music: Unstoppable Force vs.
Immovable Object (1978-79); also including 6 documentation photos
from performances.
Overall dimensions variable
wood platform: 6 x 239 3/4 x 96 1/8" (15.2 x 609 x 244.2 cm)
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Abandoned Faux Rock Building, 1999
Chromogenic color print
44 x 64 1/2" (111.7 x 160.8 cm)
Private Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Duck Blind (Grassy Island Detroit River) (from Black Out), 1999
Chromogenic color print
44 x 64 1/2" (111.7 x 160.8 cm)
Private Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Secret, 2001
2 chromatic color prints, one movie poster
41 3/4 x 91 1/2" (106 x 232.4 cm)
Collection Judy and Stuart Spence
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
In Memory of Camelot, 2000
Mixed media installation
Tree: 70 x 16 x 16" (180 x 41 cm)
Pedestal: 67 x 12" (171 x 30.5 cm)
Newspaper: 30 1/2 x 21 1/4" (77 x 54 cm)
Foundation Louis Vuitton pour la Création
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
John Glenn Memorial Detroit River Reclamation Project (Including the
Local Culture Pictorial Guide, 1968-1972, Wayne/Westland Eagle),
2001
Mixed media
136 1/2 x 216 1/4 x 249" (346.7 x 549.3 x 602.5 cm)
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Photo Show Portrays the Familiar, 2001
Gelatin silver prints, matted
26 parts, each: 16 x 20" (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
overall dimensions variable
Collection Judy and Stuart Spence
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Psychic Waveforms (Gerome Kamrowski's Sculpture Garden, Ann
Arbor, MI), 2001
Gelatin silver print
23 1/4 x 85" (59 x 215.9 cm)
Ringier Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity and
Manipulatory Responses (Graham Action), 2001
Chromogenic color prints, from an edition of 3
23 x 49 3/4" (58.4 x 126.4 cm)
Ringier Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Drawing for Repressed Spatial Relationships Rendered as Fluid No. 3:
Reconfiguration of Wayne High in the Ritual Presentation of the
Educational Complex, 2002
Mixed media on butcher paper mounted on rag paper
48 x 66 1/2" (121.9 x 168.9 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Missing Time Color Exercise (Reversed) #2, 2002
Acrylic on wood panels, magazines, wood, plexiglas
44 5/8 x 111" (113.3 x 281.9 cm)
Collection Gian Enzo Sperone, courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Repressed Spatial Relationships Rendered as Fluid No. 3:
Reconfiguration of Wayne High into the Ritual Presentation Arena of
the Educational Complex, 2002
Aluminum, steel, ceramic, cloth
33 x 64 x 43" (83.8 x 162.5 x 109.2 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Memory Ware Flat #42, 2003
Mixed media on wood panel
76 1/4 x 52 1/4 x 3 15/16" (193.6 x 132.7 x 10 cm)
Barbara Gladstone
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Mr. and Mrs. Hermaphrodite, 2005
Mixed media on paper
2 parts, each: 62 x 20 1/4" (157.5 x 51.4 cm)
Collection Broere Foundation
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Sister, 2005
Mixed media
90 x 36" (228.6 x 91.4 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Animation 19, 2007
Video on flat screen monitor, color/sound
20 min.
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Animation 2, 2007
Video on flat screen monitor, color/sound
20 min.
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Animation 20, 2007
Video on flat screen monitor, color/sound
20 min.
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Animation 6, 2007
Video on flat-screen monitor, color/sound
20 min.
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
City 5, 2007
Tinted urethane resin, illuminated base; edition 1/5
58 5/16 x 25" (148.1 x 60.5 cm)
Collection Allard and Natascha Jakobs
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kandor 15, 2007
Mixed media with video
95 1/2 x 123 1/4 x 85" (242.6 x 313.1 x 215.9 cm)
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Lenticular #15, 2007
Lenticular panel, light box
71 x 49 3/4 x 3 1/2" (180.3 x 126.4 x 8.9 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Lenticular #16, 2007
Mixed media
51 3/16 x 30 1/2 x 3 1/2" (130 x 77.5 x 8.9 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
City 6, 2008
Acrylic, resin, light, wood
50 3/4 x 22" (128.9 x 55.9 cm)
Collection Allard and Natascha Jakobs
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Memory Ware Flat #46, 2008
Mixed media on wood panel
96 1/2 x 72 1/2 x 3 1/2" (245.1 x 184.2 x 8.9 cm)
Private Collection, Brussels
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Horizontal Tracking Shot of a Cross Section of Trauma Rooms, 2009
Acrylic on wood panels, steel, video media players, SD video cards,
wiring
96 x 192 x 24 1/16" (243.8 x 487.7 x 60.1 cm)
Glenstone
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Odalisque, 2010
Mixed media
56 x 115 x 43" (142.2 x 292.1 x 109.2 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, courtesy Gagosian Galley
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36, 2011
Lenticular panel, light box; edition 1/5
32 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 4" (81.9 × 122.6 × 10.2 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kandor 16, 2011
Mixed media
77 1/4 x 49 3/4 x 40 3/8" (196.2 x 126.4 x 102.6 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, courtesy Gagosian Gallery
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Mechanical Toy Guts, 1991/2012
Mixed media with audio
30 x 240 x 156" (76.2 x 609.6 x 396.2 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Cottage Cheese, 1974/1994
Mixed media on paper
24 x 19" (60.9 x 48.2 cm)
Falckenberg Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Pirate, 1975-1993
Mixed media on paper
24 x 18" (60.9 x 45.7 cm)
Private Collection, courtesy Marc Jancou Contemporary
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Bouncing Sheep Head, 1977-1978
Painted cast rubber, artist's made container bell jar, glass, wood base
5 x 7 3/4 x 4" (12.7 x 19.7 x 10.2 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Nest, 1977-1978
Rubber, pencil shavings, bell jar, painted wood base
9 x 9 x 9" (22.9 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Perspectaphone, 1977-1978
Acrylic on wood
28 x 11 x 10" (71.1 x 27.9 x 25.4 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Monitor and the Merrimac (Three Leitmotifs), 1979-2005
Three gelatin silver prints
26 11/16 x 70 13/16 x 3 13/16" (67.8 x 179.8 x 9.7 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of the Artist
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Studies for "The Banana Man" video (1983), 1981-1982
Acrylic, ink, pencil on paper
4 parts, each: 11 x 14" (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Emi Fontana Collection, Milano/Los Angeles
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Insect Face, 1981-1982
Acrylic on sheet metal, wood
16 x 28 x 6 3/8" (40.6 x 71.1 x 16.2 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Lannan
Foundation
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Monkey's Ass, 1981-1982
Acrylic on sheet metal, wood
16 x 28 x 6 3/8" (40.6 x 71.1 x 16.2 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Lannan
Foundation
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Two Islands, 1981-1982
Acrylic on sheet metal, wood
16 x 28 x 6 3/8" (40.6 x 71.1 x 16.2 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Gift of Lannan
Foundation
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Choreographic Figure, 1982-1983
Acrylic on foam core
8 parts, each: 30 1/8 x 20" (76.5 x 50.8 cm)
overall: 120 1/2 x 60" (306.1 x 152.4 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El Paso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Shock, 1982-1983
Acrylic and Mercurochrome on paper
4 parts: panels a-c: 47 3/4 x 37 1/2" (121.3 x 95.3 cm)
panel d: 24 x 19" (60 x 48.3 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El Paso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Bells, 1982-1983
Acrylic on paper
23 1/2 x 77 1/2" (59.7 x 196.9 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El Paso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Bug Eye, 1982-1983
Acrylic on paper
18 1/8 x 53 1/8" (46 x 134.9 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El Paso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Compound Eye, 1982-1983
Acrylic on newspaper
22 1/4 x 27 1/2" (56.5 x 69.8 cm)
The Robert A. Rowan Collection, Pasadena
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Symmetrical Sets, 1982-1983
Acrylic, Mercurochrome, marker on paper
8 parts, each: 18 x 24" (45.7 x 60 cm)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The El Paso Natural
Gas Company Fund for California Art
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Monkey Island (Los Angeles Zoo #1), 1982-1983
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14" (27.9 x 35.5 cm)
Kourosh Larizadeh and Luis Pardo Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Sublime, 1984/1998
Chromogenic color prints
21 parts, each: 20 x 24" (50.8 x 60 cm)
Ringier Collection, Switzerland
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
More Tragic! More Plangent!...More Purple!, 1985/1996
6 ilfochrome classic photographs, mounted on Dobond aluminium
board
30 x 24" (76.2 x 60 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
From My Institution To Yours, 1987/2003
Acrylic on paper mounted on board, ribbon, carrot, carpet, wood,
steel, aluminum
Overall: 194 x 186 3/8 x 123 1/2" (492.8 x 473.4 x 313.7 cm)
door: 36 x 84" (91.4 x 213.4 cm)
battering ram: 120 x 12" (304.8 x 30.5 cm)
Collection Eric Decelle
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof, 1989/2009
Series of 8 photographs (Piezo print on rag paper)
Each: 14 x 10" (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #25 (Devil's Door),
2004-2005
Mixed media with video projections and photographs
113 × 100 × 113" (287 × 254 × 287 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #9 (Fresno),
2004-2005
Mixed media with video projection, video monitor, audio, photographs
98 × 221 × 185" (248.9 × 560.3 × 469.9 cm)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #28 (Nativity Play),
2004-2005
Mixed media with video projections and photographs
138 × 180 × 272" (350.5 × 457.2 × 690.9 cm)
Gagosian Gallery
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Switching Marys, 2004-2005
Mixed media with video projections
180 × 103 × 319" (457.2 × 260.6 × 810.3 cm)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Naked Majas (Bettelheim's Genital), 2008-2009
18 parts on two shelves: acrylic on canvas, wood, enamel
70 1/2 x 192 x 6" (179.1 x 487.7 x 15.2 cm)
Collection Larry Gagosian
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kandor 2B, 2011
Mixed media
77 x 93 x 85" (195.6 x 236.2 x 215.9 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof, c. 1989
10 parts: silkscreen on silk, reproductions
Subtitles: Satan's Nostrils, The Orange and the Green, Unlicky Clover,
Twisted Shamrock, Peat Spade, Master Dik,
Hangin' - Heavy - Hairy - Horny, Emerald Eyehole, Country Cousin,
Blood and Soil (Potato Print)
53 x 38" (134.6 x 96.5 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Schematic Architecture 1-46, Dates unknown
Mixed media on paper
Each: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2" (31.8 x 24.1 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Title Drawing for Birdhouse for a Bird That is Near and a Bird That is
Far, 1978
Ink on lined paper, facsimile
9 1/2 x 6" (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
MIke Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Title Drawing for Birdhouse for Wide Bird to Tall Bird, 1978
Ink on lined paper, facsimilie
9 1/2 x 6" (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Title Drawing for Birdhouse with an Egg Chute, 1978
Ink on lined paper, facsimilie
9 1/2 x 6" (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Title Drawing for Catholic Birdhouse, 1978
Ink on lined paper, facsimilie
9 1/2 x 6" (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
MIke Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Title Drawing for Gothic Birdhouse, 1978
Ink on lined paper, facsimilie
9 1/2 x 6" (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Title Drawing for Infinity Birdhouse, 1978
Ink on lined paper, facsimilie
9 1/2 x 6" (24.1 x 15.2 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Test Room Containing Multiple Stimuli Known to Elicit Curiosity and
Manipulatory Responses, 1999
Video: color/silent
51 min., 18 sec.
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kappa (with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto), 1986
Video: color/sound
26 min.
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Paul McCarthy
Heidi, 1992
Video: color/sound
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Superman Recites Selections from "The Bell Jar" and Other Works by
Sylvia Plath, 1999
Video: color/sound
7 min., 19 sec.
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Ericka Beckman, American, b. 1955
Blind Country, 1989
Video: color/sound
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Anita Pace
Tony Oursler American, born 1957
Pole Dance, 1997
Video: color/sound
31 x 18" (78.7 x 45.7 cm)
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Recording of Yummy Puffy Mommy Yoni
Audio
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip), 2004
Video: color/sound
17 min., 53 sec.
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Memory Ware Flat #41, 2003
Mixed media on wood panel
76 1/4 × 52 1/4" (193.7 × 132.7 cm)
Collection Metro Pictures, New York
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Memory Ware Flat #21, 2001
Paper pulp, tile grout, miscellaneous beads, buttons, jewelry
70 1/4 × 46 1/2 × 4" (178.4 × 118.1 × 10.2 cm)
Collection Metro Pictures, New York
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Archival material from various notebooks and performances, including
The Monitor and the Merrimac, My Space, The Banana Man,
Perspectaphone, Oracle at Delphi and Indianana
Ink on lined paper, facsimile
Dimensions variable
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Various Artists Various
Profondeurs Vertes (2012) with Scott Benzel
The Peristaltic AIrwaves (1986), performed live on KPFK radio
Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Beacon (1986), recorded live at
Artists Space
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Recording of Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, December
5, 1986
Recorded live at Artists Space
Audio
55 min., 36 sec.
With: Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo, Kim Gordon, Steve
Shelley); Molly Cleator; and Adam Rudolf
Originally recorded by Carole Parkinson and digitally remastered by
Scott Benzel and Joel Habbeshaw in 2012
Courtesy of Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Memory Ware Flat #54, 2009
Mixed media on wood panel
51 × 73 × 4 1/4" (129.5 × 185.4 × 10.8 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Paul McCarthy
Fresh Acconci, 1995
Video: color/sound
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Empathy Displacement: Humanoid Morphology (2nd and 3rd Remove)
#12, 1990
Acrylic on panel, handmade doll encased in painted wooden box with
Plexiglas window
Panel: 56 × 42 × 1 3/4" (142.2 × 106.7 × 4.4 cm)
Collection of Jill and Peter Kraus
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Timeless/Authorless (9), 1995
Photo on museum board
31 × 24" (78.7 × 60 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Timeless/Authorless (5), 1995
Photo on museum board
31 × 24" (78.7 × 60 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Concretized Negative Space, 2002
Wood, colored polyester resin
45 × 60 × 55 1/2" (114.3 × 160 × 141 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Playroom Decor, 1995
Acrylic on wood
64 × 47" (162.6 × 119.4 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kandor 6, 2007
Mixed media with video Installation
Scuplture: 58 11/16 × 100 × 51 3/4" (149.1 × 254 × 131.4 cm)
Bottle/Plinth: 74" (188 cm); Diameter: 23" (58.4 cm)
Collection of Jill and Peter Kraus
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Ahh...Youth!, 1991/2007
Eight cibachrome photographs
Each: 24 × 18" (60 × 45.7 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
City 000, 2010
Mixed media
108 × 80 × 73" (274.3 × 203.2 × 185.4 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Black Out (Detroit River), 2001
Series of 8 cibachrome prints mounted on board
26 1/2 × 50 1/8" (67.3 × 127.3 cm)
Courtesy Patrick Painter Editions, Santa Monica, California/Vancouver,
British Columbia
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Rose Hobart II, 2006
Wood, metal, carpet, acrylic paint, with video projection and sound
72 × 178 × 240" (182.9 × 452.1 × 609.6 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Butter Colored Vision of the Land O'Lakes Girl, Peche Island, 2001
Cibachrome print mounted on board
71 × 49" (180.3 × 124.5 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Endless Morphing Flow of Common Decorative Motifs (Jewelry Case),
2002
Wood, glass, black lacquer, glue, string, buttons, jewelry
98 × 34 × 50" (248.9 × 86.4 × 127 cm)
Private Collection, Chicago Illinois
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Entry Way (Genealogical Chart), 1995
101 1/2 × 115 × 3" (257.8 × 292.1 × 7.6 cm)
Collection Susan and Michael Hort
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
White Garbage (Bob Lo Island) and Black Garbage (Grassy Island
[Canadian]), 2001
Cibachrome print mounted on board, framed
Each: 71 × 49" (180.3 × 124.5 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Abuse Report, 1995/2007
Photograph mounted on plexi
42 × 32 1/2" (106.7 × 82.6 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Intestinal Garland, 1982-1983
Cloth with acrylic paint
72 × 153" (182.9 × 388.6 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
A Continuous Screening of Bob Clarks's Film Porky's (1981), the
Soundtrack of Which Has Been Replaced with Morton Subotnick's
Electronic Composition The Wild Bull (1968), and Presented in the
Secret Sub-Basement of the Gymnasium Locker Room, 2002
Collage, photography, photocopy, marker pen, pen and assemblage
70 7/8 × 326 3/4 × 143 11/16" (180 × 830 × 365 cm)
Museo Reina Sofia
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Charming Fungus, 2008-2009
Acrylic on canvas with custom frame
26 × 20 × 1 1/2" (66 × 50.8 × 3.8 cm)
Beth Swofford
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Pet Duplex, 1991
Cardboard, wood, blanket
Collection Joel Wachs
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Repressed Spatial Relationships Rendered Fluid #1: Martian School
(Work Site), 2002
Aluminum, steel
42 × 54 × 54" (106.7 × 137.2 × 137.2 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Drawing for Repressed Spatial Relationships Rendered Fluid #1:
Martian School (Work Site), 2002
Mixed media on butcher paper mounted on rag paper
35 × 50 1/2" (88.9 × 128.3 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Compound Temporal Conflation (Vertical) #1-4, 2002/2003
4 parts: color photograph
15 3/16 × 20 11/16" (38.6 × 52.6 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Compound Temporal Conflation (Horizontal) #1-4, 2002/2003
4 parts: color photograph
20 11/16 × 30 1/2" (52.6 × 77.5 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kandor 17, 2007
Mixed media with video
Edition of 2
Overall: dimensions variable
Sculpture: 108 × 60 × 53 1/4" (274.3 × 154.9 × 135.3 cm)
Tank: 60 × 9" (152.4 × 22.9 cm)
Glenstone
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Black Landscape, 2010
Mixed media
108 × 80 × 73" (274.3 × 203.2 × 185.4 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Street Sign, 2004
2 color silkscreen on white baked aluminum with 3 puncture holes
Edition of 100
3 pieces, each: 15 1/2 × 24" (39.4 × 60 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Oh, The Pain of it All, 1980
12 parts: ink on paper, photographs,acrylic paint, wood
23 black and white photographs
Drawings: 6 parts: 26 5/8 × 18 3/4" (67.6 × 47.6 cm)
2 studies: 23 3/4 × 11" (60.3 × 27.9 cm)
3 photographs with mixed media: 8 × 10" (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Painted model: 24 × 24" (60 × 60 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #2, 3, 4, 5 (Purple
Reflected Institutional Exit), 2004-2005
Mixed media with video projection
Object: 112 × 204 × 111" (284.5 × 518.2 × 281.9 cm)
crate: 44 × 49 1/2 × 57" (111.8 × 125.7 × 144.8 cm)
Collection of Jill and Peter Kraus
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction # 36 (Vice Anglais),
2011
Video: color/sound
25 min., 15 sec.
Collection Julia Stoschek, Düsseldorf
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #18 (Morose Ghoul),
2004-2005
Mixed media with video projection and photographs
140 × 67 × 48" (355.6 × 170.2 × 121.9 cm)
2 hrs., 47 min., 10 sec.
Collection Barbara Gladstone
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Untitled (Allegorical Drawing), 1976
15 parts: marker on file card
Each: 6 × 4" (15.2 × 10.2 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Lenticular #17, 2007
Mixed media
52 5/8 × 29 1/4 × 1 3/8" (133.7 × 74.3 × 3.5 cm)
Courtesy Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Cubist Drawing, 1974
Mixed media on paper
24 × 19" (60 × 48.3 cm)
Eileen and Michael Cohen Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Monkey Island: Travelogue, 1982-83
Felt-tip pen on nine pieces of paper
.a-.h: 24 x 19" (60 x 48.2 cm) each; .i: 13 x 17" (33 x 43.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York Gift of the Friends of Contemporary
Drawing and of the artist
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Exploring from Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, (1985)
Synthetic polymer paint on paper pinned to canvas
76 1/2 x 64" (194.3 x 162.6 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Friends of
Contemporary Drawing, the Contemporary Arts Council, and The Junior
Associates of The Museum of Modern Art
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Garbage Drawing #14, (c. 1988)
Synthetic polymer paint on paper
13 x 32" (33 x 81.3 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Judith Rothschild
Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Kandor 13, 2007
Mixed media and video projection
Overall dimensions variable, approximately 8' x 8' 3 1/8" x 10' 1/2"
(243 x 252 x 306.3 cm); base with tank 6' 4 1/2" x 72 x 48" (194.3 x
182.9 x 121.9 cm); Plexiglas unit 8' x 7' 11 1/2" x 8' 4" (243.8 x 242.6 x
254 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Jill and Peter Kraus and
The Speyer Family Foundation
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
The Territorial Hound, 1984
Synthetic polymer paint on paper
38 x 60" (96.5 x 152.4 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Richard S. Zeisler Bequest (by
exchange), acquired from the Over Holland Collection
Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Speech Impediment (from "The John Reed Club"), 1991-92
Felt
95 1/2 x 140" (242.6 x 355.6 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Gwen and Peter Norton
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Mike Kelley American, 1954–2012
Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites, 1991/1999
Plush toys sewn over wood and wire frames with styrofoam packing
material, nylon rope, pulleys, steel hardware and hanging plates,
fiberglass, car paint, and disinfectant
Overall dimensions variable
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Partial gift of Peter M. Brant,
courtesy the Brant Foundation, Inc., and gift of The Jill and Peter Kraus
Endowed Fund for Contemporary Acquisitions, Anne and Joel
Ehrenkranz, The Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Ninah and Michael Lynne,
and Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann
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