SELECTED WORKS SELECTED BLACK BONE: ON ROBERT KELLY

ROBERT KELLY BLACK ON BONE: SELECTED WORKS

ROBERT KELLY

BLACK ON BONE: SELECTED WORKS

SOPHIA CONTEMPORARY GALLERY 11 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 4QB, UK www.sophiacontemporary.com ROBERT KELLY

Robert Kelly (born 1956) is an American artist based in New York City. Kelly was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.A. 1978).

Kelly has traveled throughout the United States, Europe, North Africa, the Near East, and Nepal. His work often incorporates unusual materials from his journeys, among them vintage posters and printed antique paper, obscured and layered in saturated pigments on a canvas faintly scored with irregular grids. Kelly’s paintings have been likened to palimpsests and his method described as one of building “meticulously on inhabited ground, layering materials, documents, and signs, covering them, wiping out their beauty, nearly, but allowing something of the labor and their languages to persist.”

Robert Kelly’s influences include the De Stijl movement, Malevich and Mondrian and modernists like Bauhaus, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Philip Guston, Richard Diebenkorn, Kurt Schwitters, Blinky Palermo and Brazilian Neo-Concretists Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. Kelly himself cites Hans Arp, Myron Stout, Tony Smith, Brancusi, Calder, Bill Traylor, Louise Bourgeois, and Ellsworth Kelly.

His paintings have been acquired by public and private collections in Europe and the United States, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Smith College Art Museum, Northampton MA; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutger’s University, NJ; Montgomery Museum of Fine Ars, Montgomery; The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; and The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX.

Robert Kelly’s works impress us with the ease, virtuosity, and persuasion in which the artist deals with seemingly polar plastic and artistic phenomena, resulting in an organic and multi-di- mensional creativity emerging at the artist’s will.

Robert Kelly honours geometry, feeling it represents a visible assertion of human presence ROBERT KELLY, in the universe: ordered geometric elements are generated by the human mind and imagination. VIRTUOSO Abstract regular shapes are children of civilization: when creating them, the artist is on the same OF THE PALIMPSEST footing with Nature, being a creator just like her.

The assertion of aesthetic value, importance, Alexandra Shatskikh and magnificence of geometric abstract art is an achievement of not such a distant past. Two titans of the twentieth century Modernism, Russian avant-gardist Kazimir Malevich and Dutch artist Piet Mondrian had to fight relentlessly for the recognition of this new artistic language. They paved the way for all subsequent generations of artists captivated by the unprecedented opportunities opened up by generalized compositions with or without subject that have overcome traditions of mimetic figurative art.

Already from the very beginning – starting from the golden age of both great masters – it became apparent that abstract art constitutes a world of directions where some are exactly opposite to the others, as well as boundless alternatives enabling masters to express their individuality and talent.

American Robert Kelly is a sophisticated artist who knows and loves the works of the visionaries, yet is well aware of their antagonism. Asserting his system of dynamic abstraction that he called Suprematism, Kazimir Malevich polemically denied the balanced Neo-plastic grids created by Piet Mondrian, while the latter believed that the un- shakeable harmony of the universe lies in the tran- Nocturne I, 1999 Oil/ Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm quillity of static and therefore perfect constructions.

6 7 Understanding such opposed standpoints, Robert Kelly In 1914-1915, another Russian avant-gardist, enters into a dialogue with the creations of both artists Vladimir Tatlin, the visionary of the Constructivist to achieve an amazing result: in his own works, he movement, created so-called selections of brings together the polarity of both abstract systems. materials, giving voice to trivial everyday materials that previously never pertained to art, such as In the works where he uses generalized geometric glass, wallpapers, brown paper, concrete, ropes, elements, the tone is set by large patterns of wire, or undyed wood. clear sonorous colour the artist puts into strong geometric figures: they give a feeling of continuity Kurt Schwitters, the German Dadaist, pursued this and stability, and their arrangement is elegant direction in his own way by organizing waste into with rectified and substantiated harmony; we can grandiose installations. definitely see the artist’s love for Neoplasticism and his dialogue with Piet Mondrian. Robert Kelly manifests his focused attention to materiality on quite a remarkable medium. He

At the same time, the large and clearly delineated loves paper and it looks like paper loves him: it Kazimir Malevich, Black Square and Circle, 1920/21 shapes dominating his designs unmistakably does not let him go, wishing to find a place in every Pencil on paper, 19,5 x 31 cm correspond to Malevich’s monofigures, primarily work of the master. Collection of Vladimir Tsarenkov to the famous Suprematist Black Square with its hidden dynamics whose strain palpably breaks the The paper Kelly works with takes the form of regular nature of its square figure. used posters, stationary forms, and sheets from manuscripts, just to name a few. Here, Nonetheless, the dramatic difference in Kelly’s the American master with his usual artistic abstract works – despite all associative ties to the effortlessness appropriates another great tradition great traditions of geometric abstract visionaries – that has shaped contemporary art – the famous lies in the deliberate and even somewhat polemic readymades of Marcel Duchamp. denial of sterility, the estrangement from anything material that is so crucial to the works of Malev- Already a quick listing of the various traditions ich-the-mystic and Mondrian-the-theosophist. infusing Robert Kelly’s work brings the feeling of the wealth and complexity, which make his works The American painter greatly respects the so captivating. In his works, the artist brings metaphysical nature of pure abstraction yet is a together and blends the beautiful harmony of master of other equally powerful plastic systems geometric patterns whose silhouettes, in partic- of modern art. These systems were also induced by ular figures made of semi-circular and circular overwhelming shifts in art, which brought the new outlines (Mimesis series, 2010), impress with their civilizational era beginning in the twentieth century. perfection, steadiness of the hand, and unmatched clarity. This is achieved on a background of everyday The spiritual ideality of pure nonobjectivity would materials, such as paper strips or squares taken draw painting away from earthly matters, and from posters or old printed materials. some daring and talented artists found it bloodless, ethereal and excessively transcendent. Denying the The coexistence of eternal geometric shapes and Kazimir Malevich, Plate “Dynamic composition”, 1923 sublime sterility of strict abstract constructions, ephemeral evidence of everyday human reality and The State (former Imperial) Porcelain Manufactory they turned to purely material phenomena glorifying urban life builds up a vibrant contrast in small and Painting design: K.Malevich in their works the tangible flesh of the world and the large compositions, producing an acute effect on Painting execution: A. Kudriavtsev Porcelain, polychrome overglaze painting, D 23,7 cm material visualization of artistic ideas. the viewer’s perception. Collection of Vladimir Tsarenkov

8 9 However, Kelly goes even further: in addition to The ground below the horizon is formed by regular The decorative compositions of his Nocturnes, Robert Kelly is a master of material abstraction, using aged paper - its thin brittle sheets creating rectangles cut out from envelopes, stationary with their monumental grids of large rectangles of and that is not an oxymoron: he is able to combine a fold line paving the background with regular forms, letters, and printed media. The colours of local sonorous colours, echo Mondrian’s fragility and eternity, heaviness and lightness, the collage elements – he focuses on paper, treating it the earth structures its earthly nature, since it is the post-and-beam Neoplasticism, dating back to present and the timeless, tactile palpability and as the recipient of information. authentic colour of the original sheets: it is faded or ancient classical architecture on the one hand, and contemplative ideality, the regular rigor of geometry yellowed paper kept for decades or sometimes even to Malevich’s favoured Suprematist monofigures and the organic free-wheeling of painting, and The invention of papermaking and its industrial centuries that itself has accumulated historical on the other hand. the list of extremes found in his works can go on production have advanced civilizational processes, weight. Covering the painting surface with a and on. making it possible to accumulate and replicate in protective layer of acrylic lacquer, Kelly protects Amazing subtlety is found in the arranged written and printed texts information on discoveries, the paper structure from destruction, giving it a background patterns in Nocturnes: Kelly reverses, Appropriating the traditions of different eras and historical events, and scientific research, or admire kind of immortality. scrapes, abrades and folds the paper edges into the features of various types of art, the American works by great poets and writers. a geometric structuring pattern and its delicate artist treats them as essential building blocks The title Tropos derives from polysemic interpreta- flatness evokes the refined flatness of ancient of great cultures of the past and present, as Robert Kelly loves, understands and takes advan- tions of the Bible with an emphasis on the “way of Egyptian bas-reliefs. formations which he combines and superimposes, tage of this: he turns the paper medium, which being” as meaning; the artist chose it to emphasize using them as a filter through time thus enriching carries meaning, into stripes, squares, and rectan- his spiritually material “landscapes”. On the one Conceptual metamorphosis and conceptual games each other; he materializes this with sophistication gles and uses such new elements as a background. hand, they have a universally cosmic sound, while are essential for Robert Kelly, yet he does not in the formidable plastic fabric of his works. on the other hand, they display an equally powerful cease to be a painter as he remains committed to Such background can be incredibly intriguing: the polyphony of the human presence in the world - ties the traditional craft of painting, experiencing with The magnificent and mature works of Robert artist fragments sheets with typed or handwritten between people and traces of their relationships - all his senses the process of putting paint with a Kelly shall be called palimpsests, and their author characters, often leaving only parts of words, cut that is, a representation of civilization itself. brush on a plane, leaving colour traces and feeling rightfully deserves to be called a virtuoso of the phrases or just individual letters, i.e. he deletes the tone-vibration of brush strokes and paint on palimpsest. mundane, practical and sometimes trivial sense The word “play” which fits so well the nature of the canvas. contained in the original texts. It results in a Robert Kelly’s work, methods and intentions, takes specific dimension emerging in his works, some yet another important dimension, as it is associated intangible deep-planar space – and compositions with music performance. Musicality - the harmony turn into a hermetic artistic expression nurturing of combinations and sharpness of contrasts, Aleksandra Shatskikh, PhD, is an art historian and a world authority on the Russian avant-garde. She is a secret. Letters, syllables and parts of sentences reliance on rhythm, references to the bizarre the author of numerous books, and more than 250 articles on the art of Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich are beyond usual understanding or use; they hold stave (lines that convert vibration soundtracks into and other great avant-gardists. As visiting professor she has taught Russian art history at the University some exciting hidden meanings just like poems in paper) (Road to Nice series, 1998-1999; Thicket of South California, University of Maryland and the University of Texas at Austin. an unknown language. series, 2000) - is an impressive and unique feature of Robert Kelly’s work. Sometimes the artist enhances the mysterious and imaginative atmosphere of his paintings by using The plastically imaginative paintings of the the reverse side of posters as if someone behind the Nocturnes cycle (2010) with their fluctuating plane of the picture was reading them or as if we were colours and harmoniously arranged constructions ourselves behind the looking glass gazing at them. are driven by music; sometimes this music is inspired by the synthetic work of great filmmakers, In Tropos (2010), the global ideological meaning of and Kelly uses their names as a tuning-fork in the the work is manifested in the works through a great titles of his stunning homages (Antonioni Nocturne, landscape: celestial bodies – a black one (Tropos Luchino Nocturne, Fellini Nocturne, all 2010). Black VI) or a red one (Tropos Red VII) – are floating over the skyline diving the plane by the golden ratio.

10 11 Mimesis CIII, 2008 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 203 x 163 cm

12 13 Mimesis CV, 2008 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 203 x 163 cm

14 15 Mimesis CIX, 2009 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 102 x 81 cm

16 17 Bibi Nocturne III, 2012 Bibi Nocturne VIII, 2015 Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 43 x 36 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 43 x 36 cm

18 19 Tropos V, 2006 Tropos IV, 2006 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 102 x 81 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 102 x 81 cm

20 21 Nocturne Grande VIII, 2004 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 203 x 163 cm

22 23 Nocturne Tropicale II, 2014 From Here To There II, 2015 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm

24 25 Luchino’s Nocturne II, 2014 Woodstock Nocturne I, 2016 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm

26 27 Antonioni Nocturne I, 2016 Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm

28 29 El Senor I, 2015 Oil/Mixed Media on Linen, 66 x 55 cm

El Senor III, 2015 El Senor II, 2015 Oil/Mixed Media on Linen, 66 x 55 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Linen, 66 x 55 cm

30 31 Tropos Noir IX, 2012 Tropos Rouge XII, 2012 Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 49 x 39 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 49 x 39 cm

32 33 Euclid’s Ist Draft IV, 2015 Oil/Mixed Media on Masonite, 43 x 36 cm

Euclid’s Ist Draft VII, 2015 Euclid’s Ist Draft VI, 2015 Oil/Mixed Media on Masonite, 43 x 36 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Masonite, 43 x 36 cm

34 35 Nocturne X (B), 1999 Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm

Nocturne IV, 1999 Nocturne XII, 1999 Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm

36 37 Nocturne II, 1999 Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm

Nocturne III, 1999 Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm

38 39

LIST OF ARTWORKS

- Nocturne I, Oil/ Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm, 1999

- Mimesis CIII, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 203 x 163 cm, 2008

- Mimesis CV, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 203 x 163 cm, 2008

- Mimesis CIX, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 102 x 81 cm, 2009

- Bibi Nocturne III, Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 43 x 36 cm, 2012

- Bibi Nocturne VIII, Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 43 x 36 cm, 2015

- Tropos V, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 102 x 81 cm, 2006

- Tropos IV, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 102 x 81 cm, 2006

- Nocturne Grande VIII, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 203 x 163 cm, 2004

- Nocturne Tropicale II, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm, 2014

- From Here To There II, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm, 2015

- Luchino’s Nocturne II, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm, 2014

- Woodstock Nocturne I, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm, 2016

- Antonioni Nocturne I, Oil/Mixed Media on Canvas, 183 x 142 cm, 2016

- El Senor III, Oil/Mixed Media on Linen, 66 x 55 cm, 2015

- El Senor I, Oil/Mixed Media on Linen, 66 x 55 cm, 2015

- El Senor II, Oil/Mixed Media on Linen, 66 x 55 cm, 2015

- Tropos Noir IX, Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 49 x 39 cm, 2012

- Tropos Rouge XII, Oil/Mixed Media on Panel, 49 x 39 cm, 2012

- Euclid’s Ist Draft VII, Oil/Mixed Media on Masonite, 43 x 36 cm, 2015

- Euclid’s Ist Draft IV, Oil/Mixed Media on Masonite, 43 x 36 cm, 2015

- Euclid’s Ist Draft VI, Oil/Mixed Media on Masonite, 43 x 36 cm, 2015

- Nocturne IV, Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm, 1999

- Nocturne X (B), Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm, 1999

- Nocturne XII, Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm, 1999

- Nocturne II, Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm, 1999

- Nocturne III, Oil/Mixed Media on Board, 43 x 36 cm, 1999

43 TIMELINE

Born 1956 in Santa Fe, New Mexico Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 20th Anniversary Show, Mercedes Viegas Arte Contempora- Robert Kelly /Mel Kendrick, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO Barbara Singer Fine Art, Cambridge, MA nea, Rio de Janeiro, ADAA The Art Show 2008/ Berggruen Gallery, New York, NY SP-Arte 2015 / Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Sao 1999 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID Chicago Art Fair 2008/ Shearburn Gallery, Chicago, IL EDUCATION Paulo, Brazil Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM Summer Group Show, Leslie Feeley Fine Art, New York, NY Paintings and Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Fran- 1978 M.A. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge Basel Art Fair / John Berggruen Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY cisco, CA 20th Year Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Weinberger, Ko- 1998 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2014 Basel Art Fair / John Berggruen Gallery, Miami, FL benhavn, Denmark SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1997 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID PINTA Miami / Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, 2007 Basel Art Fair / Berggruen Gallery, Miami, FL Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM Miami, FL 2016 Constructions/Construcoes, Mercedes Viegas Arte Contem- Art Miami / Shearburn Gallery, Miami, FL Erickson and Elins Fine Art, San Francisco, CA ArtRio 2014 / Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Rio de poranea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Janeiro, Brazil Group Show, Galleria Rosella Colombari, Milan, Italy Concealed to Revealed, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LI 1996 Sarah Dobbs Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Alongside, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX Group Show, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY Hand Graphics, Santa Fe, NM 2015 Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo Arte, Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Sao Year 07 / London Art Projects, AR Contemporary, Milan, Brazil 1995 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM Paulo, Brazil Italy Toronto Art Fair / Douglas Udell Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2014 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Erickson and Elins Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2013 Relocation Show, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, ADAA The Art Show 2007, New York, NY Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark 1994 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM MO Works on Paper and Related Sculpture, John Berggruen 2013 Quintenz Gallery & David Floria, Aspen, CO 1993 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA Brazil Art Fair, Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Miami, FL Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, James Kelly Contemporary, 2006 25 Year Collage Show, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Erickson and Elins Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2010 Spazio Bianco, Torino, Italy Palm Springs, CA OR AR Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy 1992 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM Robert Kelly and Mel Kendrick, Quintenz Gallery, Aspen, CO Basel Art Fair / Berggruen Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY 2009 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 Realms Uncharted, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX Miami / Basel Art Fair 2006, John Berggruen Gallery, Mi- 1990 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM ami, FL 2008 Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY Abstraction, Beatriz Esguerra Art, Bogota, Colombia ADAA The Art Show 2006, New York, NY 1989 Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark Caveau, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy 2007 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 2005 You Are Invited, Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, 1988 Maloney Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ADAA Art Show, Berggruen Gallery, New York, NY Tres Americas, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico CA Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM Gallery Artists, Leslie Feely Fine Art, Miami, FL David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO New Paintings, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO Mile Marker, 3 Decades of Contemporary Art, Barbara Davis 1987 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY 2006 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Gallery, Houston, TX MOMA Lecture Series, Greenwich, CT Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 1985 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, William Shearburn Gallery, palmbeach3, Scott White Contemporary Art, Palmbeach, CA 2005 AR Contemporary Art, Milan Italy 1984 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA Palm Springs, CA Six American Artists, AR Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1983 Boston Now, Institute of Contemporary Art 2011 Dallas Art Fair, Shearburn Gallery, Dallas, TX 2004 Miami / Basel Art Fair 2004, John Berggruen Gallery, Mi- Doug Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Miami Basel, Leslie Feely Fine Art, Miami, FL ami, FL 1978 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Celebrating 23 Years, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland OR 2004 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM Cambridge MA 2010 Frank Stella/ Richard Diebenkorn/ Robert Kelly, Leslie Sean Scully and Robert Kelly, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Feely Fine Art, New York, NY 1976 Rainbow Gallery, Santa Fe, NM ID Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID The Art of Giving / Xmas Show, John Berggruen Gallery, Los 1974 Plaza Gallery, Santa Fe Fiesta, Santa Fe, NM Angeles, CA 2003 SITE/UNSEEN, James Kelly/Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2003 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, New York, NY Black & White, Jason McCoy Inc, New York, NY Color/Form/Figure, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA GROUP EXHIBITIONS New Arrivals, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY CA 2002 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Black & White, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, DK Art Basel, Miami, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID CA 2016 Site Unseen 9, Jame Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2009 Dallas Art Fair, Shearburn Gallery, Dallas, TX Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Mano A Mano, Robert Kelly / Ricardo Mazal, Lendrum Fine 2015 Manifesto, Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Rio de 2008 Cleve Carney Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Art, Los Angeles, CA Doug Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada Janeiro, Brazil IL A Way With Words, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2001 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM PINTA Miami / Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, Tipping the Balance, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY CA Miami, FL 2000 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Linear Manifestations, Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New 1111, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art & Photography, Santa Art Basel Miami Beach, Leslie Feely Fine Art, Miami, FL Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ York, NY Fe, NM Art 15 / Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporanea, London, UK

44 45 Genius Loci, DMJM Rottet, Houston, TX 1994 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ AWARDS - General Mills, Minneapolis, MN Bologna Art Fair, Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Flor- Twelfth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA - Gillette, Boston, MA ence, Italy 1993 Works from the William Small Collection, Smith College, 2013 Palm Springs Invited Guest Artist Award An American 6, Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, - Grey Advertising, New York, NY Northampton, MA 1982 Finalist, Massachusetts Council of the Arts Grant, Drawing Italy Eleventh Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA - Graham Gund, Cambridge, MA Six in the City, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, New York, 1981 Finalist, Massachusetts Council of the Arts Grant, Painting Alumni Show, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cam- - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO NY Michael Karolyi Memorial Foundation, Artist in Residence, bridge, MA Vence, France 2001 Currents, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX - IBM, New York, NY 1992 Works On Paper: Lyric with an Edge, Victoria, Munroe Fine 1980 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Eye Candy, Soma Gallery, La Jolla, CA. Art, New York, NY - Hallmark, Kansas City, MI Layerings, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Tenth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA - Werner Kramarsky, New York, NY Summer in the City, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Summer Salon, Victoria, Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY CA MUSEUM COLLECTIONS - Marsh & McLennan, Inc., New York, NY 1991 Selected Works on Paper, Victoria, Munroe Fine Art, New Summer Group Show, Senior & Shopmaker, New York, NY - Kayne Foundation, Los Angeles, CA York, NY - University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2000 Mysticism and Desire, Patricia Hamilton F.A., Los Angeles The Painters, Victoria, Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY - The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY - Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA Summer Reading, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID Ninth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA - The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM - Mead Data Central, Dayton, OH Passion and Perspective, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO Collector’s Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI - William C. Mercer Collection, New York, NY Abstraction: Form To Field, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Port- Monotypes from the Garner Tullis Workshop, Persons/Lin- - Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA land, OR dell Gallery, Helsinki, Finland - Microsoft Corporation, Mountain View, CA The Art Show, Art Dealers Association of America,J. Berg- - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutger’s University, NJ 1989-94 Mitchell/Goldberg/Kelly/Lovet, Galleri Weinberger, Co- - Mitsubishi, New York, NY gruen Gallery, New York penhagen, Denmark - Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL Processes, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Morgan Guarantee Trust Company, New York, NY 1988 Gallery Artists, Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM - The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA 1999 Winter Group Exhibition, SOMA Gallery, LaJolla, CA - New England Life, Boston, MA Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Group Show, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston,TX - The Olin Foundation, NY Art And Architecture, Acock Schlegel Architects/Brenda - The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL Minimalism, Soma Gallery, LaJolla, CA Kroos Gallery, Columbus, OH - The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX - Pepsi Cola Company of Annapolis, MD Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 1989-92 Three Person Invitational, Linda Durham Gallery, Santa - New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM - Phillip Morris Co., Boston, MA One Common Denominator, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Fe, NM ID Gallery Artists, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen, Denmark - Price Waterhouse, Boston, MA Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos: The City Series, Cedar Rapids SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS - Scientific Atlanta Headquarters, Atlanta, GA Museum of Art, IA 1987 Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Expo Sign of the Cross, Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR Limited Edition Prints & Sculpture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, - AT&T, New York, NY - Smith Barney, New York, NY New York, NY 1986 Gallery Artists, Shelia Nussbaum Gallery, Millburn, NJ - Body Shop International, London, England - Solomon Brothers, New York, NY Mary Judge & Robert Kelly,Two Person Show, Betsy Senior Summer Show, Victoria, Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY Gallery, New York, - Chemical Bank, London, England - Time Inc., New York, NY 1985 Fourth Annual Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1977 Smallest Show On Earth, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquer- - Chemical Bank, Wilmington, DE - Wang, Boston, MA que, NM 1984 Krakow International Print Biennale, Poland - Christian Science Headquarters, Boston, MA - The Ginny Williams Foundation The Reflected Spirit, Megan Fox, Santa Fe, NM Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM - Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA State of the Questions, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA - Cleve Carney, Elmhurst, IL Summer Show, West End Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1996 (New Prints) Andy Spence/Richmond Burton/Robert Kelly/ - Colgate, New York, NY - Dell Foundation, Austin, TX Mel Kendrick, Quartet Editions, NY 1983 Works On Paper, Victoria, Munroe Fine Art, New Haven, CT - Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston, MA - Boston Properties / GM Project, New York, NY Retrospective/Prospective: 1996-1997, Anne Reed Gallery, Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, MO Ketchum, ID Best of Boston, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT - Dupont, Wilmington, DE SITE Santa Fe, Contemporary New Mexico Artists; Sketches Gallery Artists, Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA & Schemas, Santa Fe, NM Group Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB Color It Pastel, Paul Gallery, University of New Hampshire, 1995 Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM Durham, NH Sarah Dobbs Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

46 47 First published in 2016 by Sophia Contemporary Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition:

ROBERT KELLY Black on Bone: Selected Works 28 September – 28 October 2016

All works © Robert Kelly

Publication © Sophia Contemporary Gallery 2016

Text © Aleksandra Shatskikh 2016

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