Best known for his soft sculpture, especially worn and dirty soiled stuffed animals in sexual positions in cold, clinical settings, Mike Kelley has been a major figure in contemporary American art in the later half of the 20th century.
A resident of Los Angeles, he was born in Detroit, Michigan, and from 1972 to 1976, studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in 1976 at the California Institute of the Arts.
In the 1980s, his stuffed animal pieces began to get much att (showing 500 of 1406 characters). |
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Mike Kelley is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Sculptors
California Painters
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