Opening reception: ‘Mike Kelley. Timeless Painting’

We are pleased to invite you to the opening reception of an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, which focuses on Kelley’s singular approach to painting as a conceptual medium. Over the course of his influential four-decade career, Mike Kelley generated a remarkably diverse oeuvre in an array of media, conflating high and low culture, critiquing prevailing aesthetic conventions, and colliding the sacred with the profane. Featuring paintings from series that span a 15 year period, 1994 through 2009, the exhibition traces Kelley’s engagement with the medium through bodies of work including The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter), a series of oval-shaped paintings on wood; Timeless Paintings, which signified Kelley’s distinct return to painting in color; as well as works made under the umbrella of his expansive and ambitious Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions series related to the artwork, ‘Educational Complex.’ Kelley’s seminal mixed media installation ‘Profondeurs Vertes,’ his ode to the influential paintings in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts that captivated him as a young person, will also be featured, marking its US debut.