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Artist Exhibitions:
Current/Upcoming Shows:
Integrate Inc.
Grandview Heights, OH
Now through December 31, 2008
Bureau for Open Culture
Columbus College of Art and
Design
Reference Collection
ongoing
http://www.bureauforopenculture
.org/bookmarks.html
Southern Ohio Museum
Portsmouth, Ohio
Distilled: A Fresh Look at
Abstract Art
Oct. 18-Dec. 30 2008
ROY ...
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Artist Galleries:
Gallery 3131 (Columbus 2004)
M (Covington, KY 2004)
Kirsten Bowen Gallery
(Columbus 2005)
Neo (Columbus 2006)
Mad Lab Gallery (Columbus
current)
Marx Gallery (Cincinnati 2007)
Terra Gallery (Columbus 2007)
ROY G BIV Gallery (Columbus
2007-2008)
Synthetica Gallery (Cincinnati
2007)
Artonomy (Cincinnati 2008)...
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Artist Reviews:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/co
ntent/life/stories/2008/11/09/2
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PI4Q.html?sid=101...
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Collections:
Collections
Paula Sondej (Col., OH)
Adam Roslovic (Col.)
Kelly Downes (Col.)
Lori Benz (Col.)
Keith Novicki (Col.)
Kae Denino (Col.)
Jaime Hesper (Col.)
Britt Ruland (Grand Canyon,
AZ)
Andrea Cambern (Col., OH)
Marc and Angel Lincewicz
(Col.)
David Powell, M.D. (Col.)
Elizabeth Collins (Col. )
Todd Cissel (London, UK )
David ...
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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 will have his first museum appearance at the Southern Ohio Museum for his "if not, winter" series of works on paper.
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