Untitled #422
2016
Wood, Gesso
6.5 x 3 x 1.5 inches
Untitled #442
2016
Wood, Gesso, Acrylic
7.5 x 2 x 2 inches
Untitled #414
2015
Metal
9 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches
Untitled #365
2014
Wood, gesso, acrylic
7.25 x 4 x 2 inches
Untitled #398
2015
Metal
5.75 x 2 x 1.5 inches
Untitled #412
2015
Wood and gesso
7.25 x 4.25 x 2 inches
Untitled #421
2016
Metal
4 x 5 x 4.75 inches
Untitled #362
2014
Metal
10.75 x 3 x 2.25 inches
Untitled #368
2014
Metal, japanese paper, wood, gesso, acrylic
22.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches
JAY KELLY
BORN 1961 Pasadena, CA
EDUCATION
1983
B.A. Syracuse University
EXHIBITIONS
2014
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2016
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (Group show)
2010
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI (Group show)
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia Spain (Group show)
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL (Group show)
2008
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL (Group show)
2007
William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (Group show)
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA (Group show)
2006
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL (Group show)
Zero Station, Portland, ME (Group show)
2005
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2004
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2003
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
2002
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL (Group show)
2001
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
"Abstract Art in the New Century", University of Wisconsin at Whitewater (Group show)
2000
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
1999
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Kips Bay Designer Showhouse, New York, NY (Group show)
1998
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
1997
Christine Adapon Fine Art, Manila, Philippines
COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, NY
The British Museum, London, England
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY
Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
Werner Kramarsky, New York, NY
Harvey Shipley Miller, New York, NY
Edward Albee, New York, NY
JAY KELLY
Recent Sculptures and Drawings
Formerly represented here in Chicago by the Roy and Anne Boyd Gallery, the exhibition of small scale sculptures and drawings are on display at Carl Hammer Gallery from November 4 through December 23, 2016. An opening reception for the artist will be held on November 4 from 6-8 pm.
Jay Kelly began his career as a photorealist painter who shifted his focus towards abstraction in the late 90's. Moving away from his remarkably rendered realist paintings, Kelly's practice evolved into a completely anti-representational body of work. With a special emphasis on sculpture, the work in this exhibition showcases his refinement of a nonrepresentational style he developed in the 1990's. With a deft execution of materials such as metal, wood, nickel silver, gesso, Japanese paper and acrylic paint, Kelly creates a vast world of miniature abstract forms, the largest being only 24" with many under 8" in height.
The sculptures play on the human psyche and will be presented in the gallery space as a community of biomorphic, organic and oddly referential constructions. Calling to mind the work of Martin Puryear, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, and Tim Burton, the work's clean lines and minimal aesthetic also allude to 20th century modernist architecture and furniture.
The same meticulous and controlled elements are employed in the artist's 5 x 5" drawings of acrylic, graphite, pastel, colored pencil and/or gouache works on vellum. The rhythmic and dynamic arrangements of line and color reveal a flawless control of line and balance of asymmetrical forms.
Jay Kelly's work is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The British Museum, London, England; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY; among others. Kelly's work is in the Sarah-Ann and Werner Kramarsky collection at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vicente in Segovia, Spain. His work was also included in What is a Line? Drawings from the Collection at Yale University Art Gallery, along with work by Richard Serra, Brice Marden, and Carl Andre.