Mary Reid Kelley
Lightning Over Miss Barley, 2013
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A unique painted collage, generously donated by the artist and Pilar Corrias.
Edition Size
Unique
Dimensions
56 x 42 cm
Finishing
Collaged paper with charcoal, watercolour, and gouache. Framed in museum grade frame.
Courtesy the artists
About The Artwork
Mary Reid Kelley, in collaboration with her partner, Patrick Kelley, combines painting, performance, and a distinctive wordplay-rich poetry in her polemical, graphically stylized videos. Performing as a First World War soldier, a grisette in revolutionary Paris, or the Minotaur, she resurrects characters that embody particular facets of ideas in time. Her historically specific tableaux enclose dilemmas of mortality, sex, and estrangement, navigated by the characters in punning dialogue that traps them between tragic and comic meanings.
About Mary Reid Kelley
Mary Reid Kelley (b. 1979) is an American artist well-known for her historical reinterpretations through performance, film, painting, and poetry. Unique in her language of performance, Reid Kelley’s works are distinctly feminist, boldly monotone, and visually rich.
Frequently collaborating with her partner, Patrick Kelley, Reid Kelley has shown extensively on an international basis with institutions such as Tate, Liverpool; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fondazione Prada, Milan, and Studio Voltaire, London.
Her work is held in the public collections of institutions such as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and Kadist Foundation, Paris.
Reid Kelley is represented by Fredericks & Freiser, Susanne Vielmetter, and Pilar Corrias.