Riddle of the Sphinx
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Mike Kelley was regarded as one of the most influential members of the contemporary Conceptual Art movement. His multimedia work, ranging from performance and installation to painting and photography, features souvenirs of popular culture, such as stuffed animals or crocheted couch throws, evoking an atmosphere of the uncanny. In his postmodern world, the high and low are combined in philosophical investigations of contemporary society, joined with a 1950s comic book style, creating absurd, sometimes humorous portrayals of the American middle class and its conceptions of the normative.
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Kandor 13
2007 · Mixed media and video projection
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (A Domestic Scene)
2000 · Video (black and white, sound)
Blue Plaid Cap/Brown Plaid Body
1997 · Watercolor and synthetic polymer paint on paper
Speech Impediment (from "The John Reed Club")
1991 · Felt
Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites
1991 · Plush toys sewn over wood and wire frames with styrofoam packing material, nylon rope, pulleys, steel hardware and hanging plates, fiberglass, car paint, and disinfectant
Empathy Displacement: Humanoid Morphology (2nd and 3rd Remove) #1
1990 · Synthetic polymer paint on panel, and handmade doll in painted wood box
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