Mike Kelley

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Featuring paintings from series that span a 15-year period, 1994 through 2009, this volume traces Mike Kelley's (1954-2012) engagement with the medium through bodies of work including "The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter)", a series of oval-shaped paintings on wood; "Timeless Painting", which marked Kelley's distinct return to painting in color, and which he described as "mannerist take-offs on Hans Hofmann's compositional theory of 'push and pull'"; the "Horizontal Tracking Shots" series; as well as works made under the umbrella of his expansive and ambitious "Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions", a series related to the "Educational Complex" artwork.

Kelley's seminal mixed-media installation "Profondeurs Vertes", his ode to the influential paintings in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts that captivated him as a young person, is also featured.

The publication includes texts by various contemporary visual artists responding to Kelley's art: Edgar Arceneaux, Carroll Dunham, Daniel Guzman, Richard Hawkins, Jay Heikes, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Mary Reid Kelley, Christina Quarles and Laurie Simmons.