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Mike Kelley GALLERY
Mike Kelley was a world-renowned artist, but also a dear friend of Beyond Baroque. Many of his earliest performances and exhibitions were held in our space. Throughout his life, he remained among our most generous supporters. Our gallery was named in his honor, as a gesture of gratitude and memorial, after his death.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Byron Baker & Will Alexander
Anonymous Steller Ravines vol 1.
October 12 - November 23, 2024
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 12, 5:00 PM
Anonymous Steller Ravines vol 1.
October 12 - November 23, 2024
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 12, 5:00 PM
Anonymous Stellar Ravines is an exhibition of images from the newly published collaboration between artist Byron Baker and Poet-in-Residence Will Alexander. This collection of prints draws on their shared Surrealist tendencies, but also demonstrates the ongoing vitality of the techniques of automatism and belief in animism central to that tradition.
Baker's works are non-representational, non-figurative, with calligraphic gestural qualities, wash, and depth, detailed lines and biomorphic passages. All are distinctive and play against each other, calling attention to their individual differences and coherence as a group. The more one looks, the more one sees.
For Alexander the concept of alchemy embodies a set of beliefs about the transmutable vibrancy of language, its capacity to shift meaning through condensation and distillation. His engagement with metaphysics is central to the channeling of energies through which he captures the activity of language.
Baker and Alexander share a connection to the lineage of Surrealism understood as a sensibility, not a style. Together the two augment each other in ways that open whole new dimensions. The visual-verbal dialogic intersections are almost refractive, each faceting the other the way a prism deconstructs visible light into a spectrum.
-- Adapted from a text by Johanna Drucker
https://johannadrucker.substack.com/p/anonymous-stellar-ravines
Proxy Gallery Presents
Sally Stein and Las Terminas,
In Dicey Times... Voting Matters Most!
October 11 - November 30, 2024
Sally Stein and Las Terminas, In Dicey Times... Voting Matters Most!
The present work, created expressly for the Proxy Gallery and titled “In dicey times… voting matters most!” combines symbolism and literalism to powerful effect: The title already prefigures a contradiction: Dice, the aleatory, stand for chance, while voting stands for the strong desire to make a difference in the outcome of the elections. Both these versions are true: the elections could go this way or that, but what is at stake is democracy itself.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Thursday 2-6:00 p.m. by appointment
Friday and Saturday 12-6:00 p.m. open