"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter) #1: The Birth of the New Year" (1994)
"The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter) #1: The Birth of the New Year," 1994
Acrylic on wood, 62 1/2 x 40 inches
Photo by Frederik Nilsen
Courtesy Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Acrylic on wood, 62 1/2 x 40 inches
Photo by Frederik Nilsen
Courtesy Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
"My own abuse was my training in Hans Hoffman’s push-pull theory. All the formal qualities in the organization of these works are patterned on that kind of formalist visual-art training which I see as a kind of visual indoctrination. So I’m recovering that."
- Mike Kelley
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