Mike Kelley's collage textile works at 1018 Art until 26 April

Exhibition Description:

This show features a selection of Mike Kelley’s collaged textile works created between 1985 and 1993. His works includes large-scale pieces made of felt, a medium associated with infancy. Kelley engages with exposed prejudices; repression, popular cultures, adolescence and sexuality, transmitting his working in a quasi-religious mystery. The banners in this exhibition are large wall hangings made of glued and sewn felt, such as Lincoln’s Beacon; a wall- hanging tribute to Abraham Lincoln. Mike Kelley’s work contains symbolic references to American history and is highly political.

Education and Training:

Mike Kelley, born in Detroit in 1954, lives and works in Los Angeles. He attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976, B.F.A. and received his M.F.A at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, in 1978. His work has been exhibited extensively in Galleries as well as in museums including recent solo exhibitions at Musée du Louvre, Paris, France in 2006; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England in 2004 and at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France in 2000.

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