Called one of the most significant artists of his generation, Stamps graduate Mike Kelley was an iconoclast who introduced a distinctive Detroit sensibility to the international art world with his references to everything from Soupy Sales to the Vernor's gnome. He was a founding member of Destroy All Monsters, a collective formed in Ann Arbor in 1974 with artists Jim Shaw, Niagara and Cary Loren. A major retrospective of his work opened at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 2013 and will travel to MOMA PS1, NY in October 2013 and MOCA Los Angeles in 2014. Before his death in 2012, Kelley had begun work based on a life-sized replica of his childhood suburban Detroit home. The new 'homestead' has been relocated to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
Cary Loren, founding member of Destroy All Monsters, and Mary Clare Stevens, the Executive Director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and longtime Kelley friend and studio manager will speak. Their presentations will be followed by the screening of two videos documenting the homestead's journey from downtown Detroit to Kelley's former home in Westland, and back again.
Video 1: Going West on Michigan Avenue from Downtown Detroit to Westland, Mike Kelley, USA, 2010--11, 76 min
Video 2: Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit, Mike Kelley, USA, 2010--11, 76 min
NOTE: Video 2 will be screened at 7:15pm with introductory remarks by Mary Clare Stephens.Supported by MOCAD, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, History of Art and the Mike Kelley Foundation.
This lecture is part of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Distinguished Speaker Series. Established with the generous support of alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Speaker Series brings respected emerging and established artists/designers from a broad spectrum of media to the School to conduct a public lecture and engage with students, faculty, and the larger at the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor communities.
All presentations take place on Thursdays at 5:10 pm at the historic Michigan Theater, located at 603 E. Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor, and are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, please visit: art-design.umich.edu/stamps
◇ Panel Discussion: Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead - YouTube
MOCAD's founding director and board president, Marsha Miro, is joined by Artangel's Co-Director James Lingwood and Mary-Clare Stevens, Executive Director of Kelley Studios, to discuss how the Mobile Homestead came into fruition. MOCAD Curator of Education Katie McGowan moderates.
◇ MIKE KELLEY LOOKING FORWARD | Sunday Sessions - YouTube
December 15, 2013
Rather than looking at Kelley’s art retrospectively, this one-day conference, organized in collaboration with Princeton University, presents new ideas about the influence of his work going forward.
Lectures by Elisabeth Sussman (The Whitney Museum of American Art), Stacy Wolf (Princeton University), John C. Welchman (University of California, San Diego; chair Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts).
Artists Rachel Harrison, William Pope. L, and Joe Scanlan comprise a panel discussion.
Mike Kelley Looking Forward has been made possible with support from the Lewis Center for the Arts and The David A. Gardner '69 Project Fund, Princeton University.
The music and performance portion of Mike Kelley is organized by guest curator Mark Beasley, with Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator, and Eliza Ryan, former Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1.
For more information please visit: http://momaps1.org/calendar/view/469/
For more information on the exhibition Mike Kelley (2013) please visit: http://www.momaps1.org/exhibitions/vi...Sunday Sessions is organized by Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator with Mike Skinner, Producer, Alex Sloane, Live Programming Coordinator and Rosey Selig-Addiss, Production Assistant.
Sunday Sessions and the VW Dome at MoMA PS1 are made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.
◇ Mike Kelley: Artist, Iconoclast, Educator - YouTube
During the fifteen years Mike Kelley taught in the Graduate Fine Art Department at Art Center, he mentored such art world luminaries as Diana Thater, Pae White and Jennifer Steinkamp. Here they reflect on Kelley's impact on their creative lives.
