Alexander Gray Associates, May 20 – June 26, 2009
ABOUT
Since the 1970s, John Kelly has consistently created self-portraits, in the form of drawings, paintings, photographs, and video. The studio time devoted to making these artworks is often a core part of the development of subsequent performance works. In the gallery exhibition, over 40 self–portraits are hung, salon–style, creating a portrait hall of Kelly’s many personae and faces, expressions and phases. Together, they show Kelly’s sensitivity as a draftsman and painter, while providing psychological and stylistic threads through thirty years of dance, theater and music.