Mike Kelley

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
Gaily and John Beinecke, Santa Monica
Metro Pictures, New York
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Miami, The Sender Collection, Home Alone, November - December 2011

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the sides of the board. There is a very minor paint loss in the bottom right corner of the work, which is only visible when inspected closely. There is evidence of light wear and handling to the wood support holding the artificial fruit, most notably along the front left edge where there is a black accretion. There are a few light yellow accretions scattered along the bottom edge of the work. Unframed.
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"What must be narrated is the trajectory of this dalliance with the underground in Kelley's art, the move from modernist-inspired painting tactics to a rock band, from noise music to placing the underground back into the museum and gallery world, but now in "appropriated" or citational ways at the moment of the rise of postmodernism.  Thus we can understand the vast panoply of graphic tactics in Kelley's now canonical paintings from the 1980s." (George Baker, "Mike Kelley: Sublevel," Mike Kelley, Munich, 2013, p. 362)