Sentences with phrase «memory ware»

The examination of folk art traditions and their resonance Kelley conducted in Framed and Frame inspired his Memory Ware series, which will be exhibited at Hauser & Wirth New York this fall (November 3 — December 24, 2016).

[41] The artist's Memory Ware Flat # 29 (2001) sold for $ 3.1 million at Sotheby's in 2015.

Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012) Memory Ware Flat # 24 signed, titled and dated «M. Kelley 2001 24» (on the reverse) paper pulp, tile grout, acrylic, miscellaneous beads, buttons and jewelry on panel 84 1/4 x 61 x 5 3/8 in.

Memory ware pieces could be decorated with buttons, seashells, and beads, and displayed as commemorative objects for special events in the life of their maker.

Rachael White, Cataloguer, Post-War & Contemporary Art, New York, discusses Memory Ware Flat # 24 by Mike Kelley.

Kelley referred to his Memory Ware works as paintings, but, comprised of mismatched beads, jewelry, and buttons attached to a panel, Memory Ware Flat # 24 most closely resembles a mosaic.

Kelley affronted nostalgic interpretations of the Memory Ware series by claiming that they were comprised of unused materials in his studio that had never been meaningful to anyone.

Viewers are tempted to touch the intricate surfaces of his Memory Ware paintings, or even to pluck a glimmering button or pin out of them.

Paintings like Memory Ware Flat # 24 sardonically reference the allover abstract paintings done by New York school artists like Jackson Pollock.

Memory Ware Flat # 24 combines the chaotic, allover composition of an Abstract Expressionist painting with banal, easily recognizable objects.

Beginning 3 November, Hauser & Wirth will present «Memory Ware», the first exhibition since 2001 devoted exclusively to the celebrated series of the same name by the late Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley (1954 — 2012).

It includes two - and three - dimensional pieces: wall works known as Memory Ware Flats and freestanding sculptures.

The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth will showcase almost two dozen Memory Ware works, most on loan from museums and significant international private collections.

Comprised of some 100 Memory Wares and associated works made between 2000 and 2010, the Memory Ware series occupies a prominent place in Kelley's materially and conceptually complex output.

Mike Kelley's Memory Ware series embodies the thematic engagement with memory - related concerns that informed the second half of the artist's career.

«Memory Ware is the first exhibition since 2001 exclusively featuring works related to the series of the same name by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012).

«Memory Ware Flat # 27» by Mike Kelley, 2001.

In the case of Memory Ware Flats, he pokes fun at the nostalgic value people invest in keepsakes and other objects.

But next month we will see very different strategies from Sotheby's and Christie's in the first sales of Mike Kelley's Memory Ware Flats works since the artist's death in 2012.

The Memory Ware Flats are also composed of objects but they're mounted on conventional two - dimensional rectangles thus solving one of the inherent problems with Kelley's work (in market terms, if not aesthetically.)

And in a socially satiric vein, Mike Kelley's «Memory Ware Flat,» a large panel bearing hundreds of pieces of cheap metal jewelry, ponders the sentimental value people invest in consumerist junk.

However, unlike Vallance, Kelley's Memory Ware Flats are not sentimental.

A stunning abstraction of household detritus intentionally framed as a discrete art object, Memory Ware # 37 stands as a testament to Kelley's artistic genius and achievements — a new canonical work for Kelley's successors to refute.

In light of the artist's own tragic and conflicted history, Memory Ware # 37 is imbued with some of those self - same qualities that Kelley disavowed.

The Memory Ware Flats are a poignant and concise example of Kelley's ability to blend high with low, irreverent with academic, to achieve an artistic synthesis that is both visually engaging and deeply thought provoking.

Memory Ware # 37 was first exhibited at the artist's solo exhibition Gallery Emi Fontana in 2001.

Within an unassuming natural wood frame, Kelley has interspersed a variety of cast - off materials — old buttons, earrings, seashells, beads, and other assorted knickknacks — Memory Ware # 37 is a visual phantasmagoria made tangible.

Auction records were also set for Mike Kelley, whose Memory Ware Flat 1 (2000) sold for $ 3,301,000, and Kerry James Marshall, whose work Plunge (1992) was sold for $ 2,165,000.

In addition to the regular menu of wares, the first in the series flaunts small toys like the ones found in Cracker - Jack boxes and gumball machines, beer bottle caps, marbles from the artist's childhood and pins of revered music groups from his engagement with the punk music scene since he played with the band Destroy All Monsters in the early 1970s, Memory Ware Flat # 1 is a special survey because of they way it pulls together the artist's influences, often - used materials, objects from his daily life and personal memorabilia.

Cologne, Jablonka Galerie, Mike Kelley, memory ware, June — September 2001, p. 6 (illustrated in color).

Kelley chose a particularly painterly way to present his memory ware: arranged flat on a panel and framed.

Paris, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Mike Kelley, memory ware, October — December 2000.

Mike Kelley (1954 - 2012) Memory Ware Flat 1 signed and dated»M.

«Memory ware» refers to a folk practice in Canada, where an assortment of objects — jugs, boxes, vases, picture frames, ashtrays and other keepsakes — are decoupaged in memorabilia, tchotchkes and trinkets of sentimental and decorative value including the buttons, single earrings, broken jewelry, badges and pins, brooches, coins, shells, beads, pearls, tiled made from broken tea cups and other charms.

Made from the bits and pieces accumulate over a lifetime, Memory Ware revives those objects that are too chipped, broken or dated to keep, but too precious to throw away, with new life.

Mike Kelley Memory Ware ↑ Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 32 East 69th Street Thursday, November 3, 6:00 - 8:00 pm The found object collage works of the late Mike Kelley will be shown together for the first time since 2001 in this beautiful and glittering exhibition.

Recent solo exhibitions include Mike Kelley: Memory Ware, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (2016); Mike Kelley: Kandors, VENUS, New York, NY (2016); Mike Kelley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2014), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2013), Museum of Modern Art / PS1, New York, NY (2013) and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (2012); Mobile Homestead and Goin» Home: Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead Videos and Documentation, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI (2013); A Tribute to Mike Kelley, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2012) and Mike Kelley: Kandors, Museen Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany (2011).

The most decorative, the «Memory Ware Flats,» are rectangular - shaped boards prepped with colored grout and then encrusted with intricately patterned beads, fake pearls, buttons, and sparkling plastic «jewels.»

On view were mostly two - dimensional, nonfigurative works from three series: «Memory Ware Flats,» (2000 — 2003), «Carpet,» and «Wood Grain» (both 2003 ---RRB-.

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Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

The Memory Ware sculptures, by contrast, juxtapose dense clusters of found objects with minimally or undecorated areas and reintroduce an overall structure.

Not exact matches

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Mrs. Ware had fond childhood memories of visiting with her parents the Taos studios of artists Bert Phillips, Ila McAfee and her husband Elmer Page Turner, as well as the Oak Cliff studio of Frank Reaugh.