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Artist Exhibitions:
Current/Upcoming Shows:
Agora
Junctionview Studios
Friday, May 11-Saturday, May
12 2012
www.agoracolumbus.com
Columbus Local
400 West Rich Street
Friday, June 1-Saturday, June
2 2012
www.400westrich.com
Gallery, Juried and Museum
Show History
(Columbus, Ohio unless
otherwise indicated)
8 Deadly Sins
MadLab Gallery
September 2004
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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
(excerpt)
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 Reviews:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/co
ntent/weekender/stories/2009/01
/01/9A_HOP01_ART_01-01-09_T7_FI
CBMT9.html
(excerpt)
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 ...
Further Information
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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 equate 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 as 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. They can be stories from friends, lyrics for songs or poems I find particularly relevant, 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 is the surviving work of the Greek lyric poet Sappho. Her work survives as fragmentary traces of intense verbal imagery and metaphor. The nature of her surviving work as parts isolated from their original context matches well with my process and had provided me with a rich source of material from which to interpret as visual imagery.
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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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