Mike Kelley was one of the most provocative and influential figures in contemporary art. His idiosyncratic works negotiate a charged terrain of desire, dread and sociopathology in everyday life. With deadpan humor, he invests childhood toys, kitsch, and ordinary objects with subversive meaning. His video projects, often created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, and Tony Oursler, inhabit a peculiarly American landscape infused with irony and pop cultural debris. - - - - Michael "Mike" Kelley (October 27, 1954 in Wayne, Michigan – c. January 31, 2012 in South Pasadena) was an American artist. His work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Garage Sale II
Grow Live Monsters
(Manson victim - sax player)
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding)
(Son)
Sir Drone
(Jinx)
Made in Hollywood
Cinderella
(Accordian Player)
Blind Country
Kappa
(The Kappa)
The Banana Man
After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence
(Self)
The Broken Rule
Day Is Done
(Narrator)
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
(Director)
Day Is Done
(Writer)
Day Is Done
(Music)
Fresh Acconci
(Director)
Mobile Homestead
(Director)
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)
(Director)
Out O' Actions
(Director)
Grow Live Monsters
(Music)
A Dance Incorporating Movements Derived from Experiments by Harry F. Harlow and Choreographed in the Manner of Martha Graham
(Director)
Heidi’s Four Basket Dances
(Director)
Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone
(Director)
Day Is Done
(Director)
The Banana Man
(Director)
Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
(Director)
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene)
(Director)
Kappa
(Animation)
Kappa
(Writer)
Blind Country
(Original Concept)
Blind Country
(Script)
Bridge Visitor (Legend-Trip)
(Director)