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Artist Exhibitions:
Current/Upcoming Shows:
FacilitySource Inc.
200 East Campus View Blvd,
Suite 301
Columbus, Ohio
May-December, 2009
www.facilitysource.com
Members' Small Works Show
ROY G BIV Gallery
Columbus, Ohio
December 2009
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
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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 3D mixed media assemblages composed of found metal, wood, clothing, plastic, and paper. I find the inner and exterior exploration of the use of discarded objects as a means of expression interesting. Many of the objects are found in or nearby my home. I gather them from forgotten spots in my house and yard and from industrial areas that can best be described as “non-places”.
These non-places are concrete landscapes, alleys, and parking lots with little aesthetic value above their practical use and who serve as idling places for a variety of objects. I liken their use 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. I find this process to be comparable, on a smaller scale, to the approach I take with my work.
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 want to be able to find a way to unite the inner and outer inspirations of my work in a mode that addresses both sources.
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Tom Kelly is a self-taught mixed-media visual artist living and working in Columbus, Ohio. 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.
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