Robert Kelly Art
American, b. 1956
Drawing on his extensive travels, Robert Kelly’s painted collages contain found print and material from around the world. Kelly has included antique botanical drawings, handwritten notes, small sketches, vintage posters, and signs in his work. To create the ground for his paintings, he lays the re-appropriated paper in long strips to form irregular grids, small squares, and triangles. The repeated application often obscures the printed content beyond recognition. His play of edges, angles, and cuts creates a tension and an intuitive logic to the placement of line and form. These explorations, communicated through a skilled technique, refined over a 20-year career, achieve a mature balance that is both formally rigorous and visually exciting.
Robert W. Kelly was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge with a MA in 1978. Throughout his career he has received positive reviews in many prestigious publications including Art in America, ARTnews and the Los Angeles Times. He is represented in both private and public collections including the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, IBM, New York and the Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe. Although frequently returning to the Southwest, Kelly resides in New York City.to
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Chords XIV
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Berber Wedding XXVI #B
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signature, title, year, medium, dimensions, and arrow on verso
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oil and mixed media on canvas
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1985 Abstract Geometric Monoprint Painting Chine Colle Collage Robert Kelly
By Robert Kelly
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Kelly (American, 1956-)
Abstract Monoprint
1985
Pencil titled Donja XI and dated 1985 lower left
Hand signed lower right
Provenance: from the collection of a prominent US corporation.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 33.5" X 28"
Image: 26" X 22"
Robert Kelly (born 1956) is an American artist. He is based in New York City.
Kelly was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.A. 1978). His paintings have been acquired by public and private collections in Europe and the United States, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Smith College Art Museum, Northampton MA; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutger’s University, NJ; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery; The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX.
Kelly has traveled throughout the United States, Europe, North Africa, the Near East, and Nepal. His work often incorporates unusual materials from his journeys, among them vintage posters and printed antique paper, obscured and layered in saturated pigments on a canvas faintly scored with irregular grids. Kelly’s paintings have been likened to palimpsests and his method described as one of building “meticulously on inhabited ground, layering materials, documents, and signs, covering them, wiping out their beauty, nearly, but allowing something of the labor and their languages to persist.”
Kelly worked as a commercial photographer for Polaroid in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and completed residencies at The MacDowell Colony and The Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France, before devoting himself entirely to painting in 1982. His work has been the subject of more than forty-five solo shows at venues in North America and Europe, including Spazio Bianco/AR Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy; Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York; and The John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California. He has participated in more than one hundred group shows in the United States and abroad. including the Projects Inaugural Exhibition at Bentley Gallery Featuring works by Jim Dine...
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My Brother Myself - II
By Robert Kelly
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Chords XVI
By Robert Kelly
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Espejos III
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nemesis Red
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Grande II
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Espejos II
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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My Brother Myself - III
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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My Brother Myself - I, II and III
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Suite Series
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Grande III
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Grande V
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Suite - 3 #3
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Espejos IV
By Robert Kelly
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Bibi Nocturne 1
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Suite - 3 #2
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Suite - 3 #2
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Robert Kelly exists in an edition of 50. Paper size is 24"h x 30"w with an image size of 14.5"h x 19"w.
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My Brother Myself - I
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Suite - 3 #4
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne Suite - 3 #4
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Robert Kelly exists in an edition of 50. Paper size is 24"h x 30"w with an image size of 14.5"h x 19"w.
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Orfeo II
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Bibi Nocturne 2
By Robert Kelly
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Nocturne XLIV (Grande Series)
By Robert Kelly
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil and mixed media on canvas
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