Jay Kelly “Recent Sculptures & Drawings”
Jim Kempner Fine Art
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Jay Kelly began his career as a photorealist paint er who shifted his focus towards abstraction in the late 90’s. Moving away from his remarkably rendered realist paintings, Kelly’s practice evolved into a completely anti - representational body of work. With a special emphasis on sculpture, the work in this exhibition show case s his refinement of a nonrepresentational style he developed in the 1990’s . With a deft execution of materials such as metal, wood, nickel silver, gesso, Japanese paper and acrylic paint, Kelly creates a vast world of miniature abstract forms , the largest being only 24 ” with many under 8” in height . The sculptures play on the human psyche and will be presented in t he gallery space as a community of biomorphic, organic and oddly referential constructions. Calling to mind the work o f Martin Puryear, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, and Tim Burton, t he work’s clean lines and minimal aesthetic also allude to 20th century modernist architecture and furniture. The same meticulous and controlled elements are employed in the artist’s 5 x 5” drawings of acrylic, graphite , pastel, colored pencil and/or gouache works on vellum. The rhythmic and dynamic arrangements of line and color reveal a flawless control of line and a balance of asymmetrical forms
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Schedule
from September 13, 2014 to October 25, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-13 from 18:00 to 20:00