Awful as the Clam Diggers mostly are, they preserve body fragments as tabletop sculpture. (haberarts.com)
Many of his works used metonymic representation of gendered body fragments in ways that reflected surrealist roots. (ayearofpositivethinking.com)
Now, as then, The Uncanny brings together a wide range of figurative sculptures, mannequins, dummies and sex - dolls, animatronic puppets, body - casts and anatomical body fragments and models, religious statuary, stuffed animals, photographs, film stills and photographic archive material; as well as Kelley's own oddball collections of ephemera, which he calls his «harems», and which are now in the possession of another Los Angeles collector. (theguardian.com)