Mike Kelley Horizontal Tracking Shots at GAGOSIAN.wmv

James Kalm sneaks into the Gagosian Gallery on the down-low to take a brisk tour of this recent group of paintings Horizontal Tracking Shots by Mike Kelley. Kelley uses the theatrical device of the set or backdrop as a coloristic ground on which to place his eccentric imagist paintings. These large planes of uninflected designer colors place the applied paintings into a context with high formalism, creating a complex dialog between the abstract and the eccentric.

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[hankjunior]

I like these paintings. Is larry running a Daycare Center on the side? whats with the kids screaming,

Thanks James!

[jameskalm]

The screaming kids are on the multi channel video piece.

JK

[LiamColeTIM]

Thanks for this video. Great to see the show for those of us who don't live close enough to see it in the flesh.

[jpapare]

Jerry Saltz described "Day is Done" as a pioneering example of "clusterfuck aesthetics," the tendency towards overloaded multimedia environments in contemporary art.

I'm so glad I found this quote from the ...Voice via Wikipedia. Actually this quote really helps me understand this work. Thank you James and Jerry.

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

Thank you. Happy New Year james.

Best -

[MrWowforever]

well, we get mud. light refracted through a prism functions as all white. Science not paint. you are correct about the 'mud'. I was using Duchamps cloying point, he would say yes to the readymade conscious. I am a painter because in practice I disagree with not only Duchamp, but so many others. here's mud in your eye. :)

[spawnofdawnacle]

As long as others paint like this, I will paint for myself. Setting aside primitive concepts of addition and subtraction, I can mix all of my paints together and produce white -- we would simply need to apply care to what we hit it with and how long we sample the response. God bless and keep you Brother Kalm. Thanks for a great year. Best of the New.

[claureic]

The idea of consciousness as a readymade would certainly please Breton and the Surrealists. I like Johns's definition of art: "take an object; do sth to it; do sth else to it."This could work for colors too.

[jameskalm]

Wow,

I defy you to take all your tubes of paint, mix them together, and make white.

Is consciousness a readymade?

[MrWowforever]

white is all colors at once, the other colors are degrees of less white, or less light. paint tubes are puzzle pieces until they are 'used'. isn't paint a readymade, same as a urinal or a goat.

[jameskalm]

I think it's the difference between starting out with colored pieces of a puzzle, or a white sheet (although white is a color).

[claureic]

Yes, but when the artist uses found colors, he still chooses what he's going to put next to it, doesn't he? Rauschenberg: the combines are great color pieces, and it's not by chance; just like Kelley's stuffed animals. If you move the animals one from the other, the piece dies (shape, but also colorwise), if I may state an opinion.