"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) #3: What’s Limp in 3D I Erect in 2D" (1994)
"The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter) #3: What’s Limp in 3D I Erect in 2D," 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
"When I went to undergraduate school I studied to be a painter and I was taught mostly by GI-bill artists who studied with Hoffman or other modernists like Léger. But Hoffman was the primary theorist for compositional ideas in painting. That’s what I was taught, but I always had this perverse kind of version of it. And it was already kind of perversely being done by the early pop people like Rauschenberg- obviously still painting in a Hoffman manner."
- Mike Kelley
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