[arthistorymajors] Mary Kelly January 24

Cecile Whiting cwhiting at uci.edu
Thu Jan 20 11:37:36 PST 2011


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The UCI Department of Studio Art presents:

An artist lecture by Mary Kelly 

Monday, January 24 at 6pm

McCormick Screening Room, HG 1070

Open to the Public 

 

Mary Kelly is well-known for her project-based work, addressing questions of
sexuality, identity and historical memory in the form of large-scale
narrative installations. She studied painting in Florence, Italy, in the
sixties, and taught in Beirut, Lebanon during a time of intense cultural
activity known as the "golden age".  In 1968, at the peak of the student
movements in Europe, she moved to London, England to continue postgraduate
study at St. Martin's School of Art. There, she began her long-term critique
of conceptualism, informed by the feminist theory of the early women's
movement in which she was actively involved throughout the 1970s.  She was a
member of the Berwick Street Film Collective and a founder of the Artists'
Union.  During this time, she collaborated on the film, Nightcleaners,
1970-75, and the installation, Women & Work: a document on the division of
labor in industry, 1975, as well as producing her iconic work on the
mother/child relationship, Post-Partum Document, 1973-79. Her four part work
interrogating women's relation to the body, money, history and power,
Interim, 1984-89, was shown in its entirety at the New Museum of
Contemporary Art in 1990 and the symposium that was organized in conjunction
with it, On the Subject of History, marked a highpoint in the feminism and
postmodernism debate instigated by the critic, and early supporter of
Kelly's work, Craig Owens.  During the nineties, she focused on the issue of
war: first, spectacle, in Gloria Patri, 1992, using components of polished
aluminum, then trauma, in Mea Culpa, 1999, developing the ephemeral medium
of compressed lint to form text in intaglio. This process culminated in a
continuous, linear relief of more than 200 feet, The Ballad of Kastriot
Rexhepi, 2001, which was exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico
City. More recently, she has turned to the theme of collective memory in
work such as Circa 1968, and the exhibition Love Songs, 2005-07, and
Multi-Story House.  Previously the head of the studio division of the
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Kelly has been Professor of Art
and Critical Theory Art in the School of Art and Architecture at the
University of California, Los Angeles since 1996, where she has established
an Interdisciplinary Studio area for graduate students engaged in
site-specific, collective and project-based practices. 

Mary Kelly's lecture is a part of  Mirrorical Returns, the UCI Studio Art
MFA Colloquium for Winter 2011. The colloquium is open to the public and is
designed to be an opportunity for the UCI community to engage in dialogue
with guest speakers  from a variety of disciplines and perspectives in the
field of contemporary art. 

 

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