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Mike Kelly at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Mike Kelly makes a tongue-in-cheek jab at determining value in art by bringing two forms into a kind of balance in this pairing at Hauser & Wirth’s Upper East Side space. Part of Kelly’s Memory Ware series, for which he replicated a popular folk art form by covering objects and flat surfaces with beads, shells and other small keepsake items, this sculpture suggests that the force of personality on the right balances the abundance of work on the left. (Through Dec 23rd).

Mike Kelly, Balanced by Mass and Personification, mixed media, 60 ½ x 25 x 15 inches, 2001.
Mike Kelly, Balanced by Mass and Personification, mixed media, 60 ½ x 25 x 15 inches, 2001.

Mike Kelly at Venus Over Manhattan

Shrunken and placed in a jar by the evil genius Braniac, the capital city of Superman’s home planet exists but just out of reach.   Mike Kelly takes up the theme of past trauma as ever-present influence on the present in an installation of mixed media installations and lightboxes based on drawings of Kandor culled from comics. (At Venus Over Manhattan through January 28th).

Mike Kelly, Animation 2 (Giggling), animation, color/sound, continuous loop, 20 min, 22 x 14 x 3 inches, 2007.
Mike Kelly, Animation 2 (Giggling), animation, color/sound, continuous loop, 20 min, 22 x 14 x 3 inches, 2007.