Kelley Studio and Emi Fontana, Kourosh Larizadeh, Paul and Karen McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Anita Pace, Jim Shaw, Mary Clare Stevens, Marnie Weber, John C. Welchman [for all Mike’s many friends near and far], Mike Kelley, Artist, Passes Away, for ForYourArt, February 2012.
And I will also write in French.
I live in Berlin, and sometimes in Los Angeles. I make photographs, and videos. And, here.
I also flit on Twitter at times.
This is a little bit of why I am still looking.
I live in Berlin, and sometimes in Los Angeles. I make photographs, and videos. And, here.
I also flit on Twitter at times.
This is a little bit of why I am still looking.
February 2, 2012
Our dear friend the artist Mike Kelley (born 1954 in Detroit) has passed away. Unstintingly passionate, habitually outspoken and immeasurably creative in every genre or material with which he took up—and that was most of them, from performance and sculpture to painting, installation and video, from experimental music to writing in a thousand voices—Mike was an irresistible force in contemporary art and the wider culture. For Mike, history existed only to be reconstructed, memory was selective, faulty and willful and life itself vibrant but often dysfunctional.
