Description:
Multicolor abstract circular lobular forms. From Portfolio of 14 prints from Art resources Transfer (A.R.T.)

Label Text:
Label text from “The Art of Collecting: Contemporary Prints from the Risa Gerrig Collection,” September 10 – October 12, 2014:
Kelley’s aesthetic incorporates aspects of nostalgia, humor, and vernacular art, and often evokes a sense of memory. This work exemplifies aspects of the grotesque and the uncanny through the depiction of brain and organ-like figures, but is softened by the wash of playful colors. The imagery is both familiar and foreign, resulting in an overall unsettling effect. Kelley’s abstract, surreal composition plays with the viewer’s expectations, simultaneously attracting the viewer through the bright colors and bubbly forms, while repulsing us by using grotesque imagery. - Shelby Miner (B.A. ’15)

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