To beauty: A Tribute to Mike Kelley

Checklist Double Horizontal Chaste Form (Unfolded) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl Illustrated with the Image of the Land O’ Lakes, 1996 Acrylic on wood 44 x 118 inches Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL Upright and Inverted Form A/Upright Chaste Form (Unfolded and Debuttered) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl B/Inverted (Sexualized) Chaste Form (Unfolded) Illustrated with the Image of the Spit-into Pumpkin Containing the Name of the Lost Love (High Priestess), 1996 Acrylic on wood 55 x 44 inches (each panel) Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL

Tender Loving Care, 1978, Marker on paper, 23 ½ x 23 ¾ inches Collection of Craig Robins

Tender Loving Care, 1978 Marker on paper 23 ½ x 23 ¾ inches Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL Lincoln and the Pipe, 1987 Black ink on paper 42 x 100 inches Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL The Banana Man, 1983 28:15 Video Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

October 17, 2012 - Februar y 24, 2013

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University 10975 SW 17th St., Miami, FL 33199 t: 305.348.2890 | e: artinfo@fiu.edu | w: thefrost.fiu.edu Museum Hours: Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm / Sun: 12pm-5pm / Mon: Closed The Frost Art Museum receives ongoing support from the Steven and Dorothea Green Endowment; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; The Miami Herald; Target; the Members & Friends of The Frost Art Museum.

Smithsonian Institution

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum

Font image: The Banana Man, 1983 Video 28:15 Courtesy Electric Arts Intermix (EAI), New York Images are courtesy of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

to beauty presents a selection of works by Mike Kelley, who is often acknowledged as one of the most influential and significant American artists of the past 25 years, and a pioneer of a movement called "abject art.”

The works presented highlight the idiosyncratic, complex and provocative nature of Kelley’s creations.

His vast repertoire spanned virtually all artistic media, which included sculpture and installations, paintings, drawings, video, music and performance, all which he employed wide-ranging interests.

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In his practice, Kelley absorbed all manner of history and culture as sources for his creative output. He mined both low and high culture, the personal and the public, the universal and the unconventional to make connections and associations that enveloped his work with elaborate and poignant meanings.

Kelley drew inspiration from a variety of sources

including pop culture, psychoanalysis, punk music, science fiction, and kitsch, all the while drawing upon his fascination with the underpinnings of contemporary culture and the formation of identity.

The works represented are a small part of his wide oeuvre, yet they address some of Kelley’s long-standing concerns, which included the darker aspects of society, distorted childhood memories and his adolescent sexual attraction to the Land O’ Lakes girl.

These works coalesce seemingly disparate topics to reveal the sometimes painful, often irreverent and always emotionally complicated reaches of the human condition.

Klaudio Rodriguez Curator The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum

Upright and Inverted Form, A/Upright Chaste Form (Unfolded and Debuttered) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl, B/Inverted (Sexualized) Chaste Form (Unfolded) Illustrated with the Image of the Spit-into Pumpkin Containing the Name of the Lost Love (High Priestess), 1996, Acrylic on wood, 55 x 44 inches (each panel), Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL

"I like to think that I make my work primarily for those who dislike it. I get pleasure from that idea…."

-Mike Kelley

Double Horizontal Chaste Form (Unfolded) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl Illustrated with the Image of the Land O’ Lakes, 1996, Acrylic on wood, 44 x 118 inches, Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL

to beauty presents a selection of works by Mike Kelley, who is often acknowledged as one of the most influential and significant American artists of the past 25 years, and a pioneer of a movement called "abject art.”

The works presented highlight the idiosyncratic, complex and provocative nature of Kelley’s creations.

His vast repertoire spanned virtually all artistic media, which included sculpture and installations, paintings, drawings, video, music and performance, all which he employed wide-ranging interests.

to

investigate

his

In his practice, Kelley absorbed all manner of history and culture as sources for his creative output. He mined both low and high culture, the personal and the public, the universal and the unconventional to make connections and associations that enveloped his work with elaborate and poignant meanings.

Kelley drew inspiration from a variety of sources

including pop culture, psychoanalysis, punk music, science fiction, and kitsch, all the while drawing upon his fascination with the underpinnings of contemporary culture and the formation of identity.

The works represented are a small part of his wide oeuvre, yet they address some of Kelley’s long-standing concerns, which included the darker aspects of society, distorted childhood memories and his adolescent sexual attraction to the Land O’ Lakes girl.

These works coalesce seemingly disparate topics to reveal the sometimes painful, often irreverent and always emotionally complicated reaches of the human condition.

Klaudio Rodriguez Curator The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum

Upright and Inverted Form, A/Upright Chaste Form (Unfolded and Debuttered) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl, B/Inverted (Sexualized) Chaste Form (Unfolded) Illustrated with the Image of the Spit-into Pumpkin Containing the Name of the Lost Love (High Priestess), 1996, Acrylic on wood, 55 x 44 inches (each panel), Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL

"I like to think that I make my work primarily for those who dislike it. I get pleasure from that idea…."

-Mike Kelley

Double Horizontal Chaste Form (Unfolded) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl Illustrated with the Image of the Land O’ Lakes, 1996, Acrylic on wood, 44 x 118 inches, Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL

Checklist Double Horizontal Chaste Form (Unfolded) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl Illustrated with the Image of the Land O’ Lakes, 1996 Acrylic on wood 44 x 118 inches Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL Upright and Inverted Form A/Upright Chaste Form (Unfolded and Debuttered) of the Land O’ Lakes Girl B/Inverted (Sexualized) Chaste Form (Unfolded) Illustrated with the Image of the Spit-into Pumpkin Containing the Name of the Lost Love (High Priestess), 1996 Acrylic on wood 55 x 44 inches (each panel) Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL

Tender Loving Care, 1978, Marker on paper, 23 ½ x 23 ¾ inches Collection of Craig Robins

Tender Loving Care, 1978 Marker on paper 23 ½ x 23 ¾ inches Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL Lincoln and the Pipe, 1987 Black ink on paper 42 x 100 inches Collection of Craig Robins, Miami, FL The Banana Man, 1983 28:15 Video Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

October 17, 2012 - Februar y 24, 2013

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University 10975 SW 17th St., Miami, FL 33199 t: 305.348.2890 | e: artinfo@fiu.edu | w: thefrost.fiu.edu Museum Hours: Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm / Sun: 12pm-5pm / Mon: Closed The Frost Art Museum receives ongoing support from the Steven and Dorothea Green Endowment; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; The Miami Herald; Target; the Members & Friends of The Frost Art Museum.

Smithsonian Institution

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum

Font image: The Banana Man, 1983 Video 28:15 Courtesy Electric Arts Intermix (EAI), New York Images are courtesy of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts