Artist Research: Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley’s “Kandors” series (1999, 2007, 2009, 2011) Mike Kelley was an eclectic but influential artist who worked with various artistic disciplines. His work often focused on subjects such as "youth, class and the divide between low and high culture" ( 2) . "Kelley has made nostalgia, memory, and repression in everyday life the topics of his idiosyncratic sculptures, performances, paintings, and installations, which conflate vernacular sources and high modernist aesthetics " ( 1) . His works were quirky, and dark - and he definitely liked to focus on subjects/ topics that mainstream society did not like to discuss out in the open like abuse and or mental repressions of trauma. As well as make fun and sort of go against American societies idea of what was 'normal'. Mike Kelley committed suicide in 2012 but he is remembered as "one of the most influential members of the contemporary Conceptual Art movement" ( 2) . One installa...
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