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John Kelly – Schiele~Kelly @ La MaMa – Tuesday, November 23rd from 7PM – 9PM
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Schiele~Kelly a solo exhibition by visual and performance artist John Kelly, will have an opening event Tuesday, November 23rd, from 7 – 9 PM at La MaMa’s La Galleria, 6 East 1st Street (between The Bowery and 2nd Ave).
After his recent (June/July 2009) retrospective The Mirror Stages: Self-Portraits at Alexander Gray Associates, Kelly again considered his relationship to both visual art and the work of the Viennese Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918) in particular. This led him to create a series of photographic self-portraits based on Schiele’s prolific body of work, and turbulent personal life. Using his body as subject, with the camera as spectator, he continues his investigation into self-portraiture and its relation to performance.
In addition to the Schiele~Kelly exhibit, La MaMa will present Pass The Blutwurst, Bitte (Version IV) in December 2010 at The Ellen Stewart Theater. This landmark and 1987 Obie award winning work will incorporate four new scenes and film sequences that recreate the private experience of drawing into a theatrical language.
‘Schiele~Kelly’
November 23–December 12
La Galleria LaMaMa
6 east 1st Street (between The Bowery and 2nd Ave)
212 505 2476
The Escape Artist – John Kelly – Performance
"THE ESCAPE ARTIST" at the DIXON PLACE - HOT! FESTIVAL, ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Sunday, July 26th, at 9pm - 161 Chrystie Street (between Delancey and Rivington)
New music by John Kelly and Carol Lipnik performed as a work-in-progress with interactive video footage inspired by the Baroque paintings of Caravaggio, shot in Rome, Venice, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York, tracing an artist’s journey through time. The Escape Artist considers the parallels between the unbridled creative spirit of the urban artist of the 17th and 21st centuries.
John Kelly is a two time Bessie and Obie award winning performance and visual artist whose work began in New York’s East Village clubs in the early 1980’s; since that time he has created over 30 performance works which have been performed at many performance and alternative venues. Originally trained as a dancer with American Ballet Theatre and the Harkness House for Ballet Arts, he performed with modern dance pioneers. His ongoing relationship to the mirror has bridged both the dance studios, as well as a consistent practice of self-portraiture.
John Kelly Transmogrified – Paved Paradise REDUX @ Abrons Art Center
John Kelly as Joni Mitchell @ Paved Paradise REDUX © Frank H. Jump
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John Kelly Defrocked © Frank H. Jump
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Zecca Esquibel as Georgia O'Keeffe © Frank H. Jump
Paul Ossola as Vincent van Gogh © Frank H. Jump
John Kelly @ the afterparty © Frank H. Jump
Murray Hill in the lobby during intermission. © Frank H. Jump
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With only six more performances, this is a show you must not miss. John Kelly is an art/performance genius.
“Transformation through spiritual osmosis … magnificent.” — The New York Times
In Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell, John Kelly’s vocal and dramatic skills make for an interpretation that is at once haunting and hilarious, and will gratify even the most hardened “Joni-phile.” The arrangements (performed in the original key) combined with Kelly’s spot-on vocal acrobatics provide an experience that is both original and uncanny. – ABRON ARTS CENTER
