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Artist Exhibitions:
Current/Upcoming Shows:
Utrecht Art Supplies
Columbus, Ohio
February 2012
Stupid Cupid > the
ALT-Valentine’s Day Party
FEVERHEAD
Saturday, February 11, 2012
8:00 pm – 1:00 am
http://feverhead.com/
OHIOCENTRIC: City Center
Gallery's All-Ohio Juried
Exhibition
OSU Urban Arts Space
Feb. 18-March 24th 2012
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Artist Reviews:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/co
ntent/weekender/stories/2009/01
/01/9A_HOP01_ART_01-01-09_T7_FI
CBMT9.html
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Found objects
"Function to Form" -- at the
Ohio Art League, 954 N. High
St. -- will display works by
Tom Kelly and Yvette van der
Velde.
Both use found objects but
with different perspectives.
Kelly ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Tom Kelly
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I work mainly with mixed media paintings and assemblages composed of found metal, wood, clothing, plastic, and paper. I treat the inner and exterior perceptions of discarded objects as metaphors for the gaps between perception, memory, fiction and history. Many of the objects are found in or nearby my home in forgotten spots or in stashes of family history. I also find them from abandoned industrial areas that can best be described as “non-places" with little aesthetic value above their formal practical use and who serve as idling places for a variety of objects. I liken the use of these objects in my work to how an individual unifies the many influences, memories, stimuli, subconscious impulses, and other factors that build particular facets of his or her personality. Sometimes they exist harmoniously and sometimes not. Other times their interaction can produce results that are completely unexpected. Many times the individual is forced to fill the blanks as well as possible given the available material. I treat the titles of my work as found objects as well that add another layer of complexity to the work. They can be stories from friends, lyrics for songs or poems I find particularly inspiring, or references to historical or mythological figures. I have taken on an ongoing project to bring visual expression to specific literary sources. My principle inspiration for this project are the surviving fragments of the Greek lyric poet Sappho. Her work survives as briefs shreds of radiant imagery and metaphor and I find the use of these fragments as interesting as the use of found real objects in my work.
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Tom Kelly is a self-taught mixed-media visual artist. His work has been shown regionally in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky as well as in the the global Slideluck Potshow. Kelly cites the lyric writing of Sappho, Waits/Brennan, Leonard Cohen, the re-use of everyday objects, Celtic and Roman history, and the poetry of Thomas Gray, William Butler Yeats, and Theodore Roethke as inspirations for his work. His paintings appear in private collections in London, Washington DC, Arizona, and in Ohio. In the Fall of 2008 he made his museum debut at the Southern Ohio Museum for his "if not, winter" series of works on paper. In 2011 he was named a finalist for a Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship.
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