Jay Kelly "Sculptures & Drawings"
Jim Kempner Fine Art
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Originally a photorealist painter, Jay Kelly employs the same obsessive and controlled elements with his drawings of acrylic, graphite, and gouache to create this series of 5 x 5 inch drawings on vellum. Seemingly spontaneous and unconscious, upon closer inspection these drawings reveal perfectly controlled lines and balance of asymmetrical forms. The drawings are like haikus, each a self-contained world of elegant lines and blurred dreamlike shapes. This collection moves from airy, soft hues to saturated colors, rich and robust over translucent vellum.
Kelly’s sculptures are invented forms though they heavily refer to the fundamentals of found objects. Some of the small abstract wire constructions are drawings in space and have a light airiness and playful quality. Others, made with silver nickel, wood, and gesso are aged with patina and are more solid in appearance. Each measures no more than 10 inches high and 4 inches wide, including their small wooden bases.
Influences range from 1950s Abstraction, Surrealism, 20th century architecture, jazz music from the 1950s and 60s, painting and graphic design from that period, and mid-century Scandinavian pottery, all of which get filtered through an idiosyncratic, yet eloquent aesthetic.
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from March 13, 2010 to April 17, 2010