In Memoriam: Mike Kelley1954–2012
"I knew by the time I was a teenager that I was going to be an artist. There was no doubt about that. There was nothing else for me to be."
Mike Kelley: A Conversation with Art21
ART21: The character of Pegleg is repeated in the paintings and prints. Why is he there?
GALLAGHER: He’s there for a kind of insistence. It’s hard to put it into language because it’s a form, but for me, Pegleg implies travel and worldliness. That ad appeals to me because of the way Pegleg Bates, the actual actor and comedian,...
ART21: Can you clarify what you mean by [the word] chance, especially with the collages you’ve been photographing?
HERRERA: By chance, I mean (in the photo work) that I usually don’t compose the way I’m photographing. I go through and take three or four photos of the same collage, but I’m not carefully composing what the final...
ART21: Who are the people in the photos, here, above your table in the studio?
HERRERA: The photos are of two of my favorite artists. One is Stravinsky, and the other one is Balanchine. They’re important for me just because of what they did—Stravinsky, music, and Balanchine, choreography—and their collaboration was very...
"Often when you're in the process of realizing an image, it's going somewhere else. If that tangent starts going off in a place that feels more exciting, that's what I go with."
