MICHAEL JOHN KELLY

Kim Alexander
Jonathan Apgar
Rebecca Bennett
Bessie & Emily
Tim Brown
Daniela Campins
Daniela Calandra
Jenny Donaire
Roxy Farhat
Jake Fowler
Jane Gillespie
André Goeritz
Mathiew Greenfield
Ashley Hagen
Michelle Carla Handel
Jeffrey Hastings
Jiyon Hong
Raymie Iadevaia
William Kaminski
Michael Kelly
Nikki Leone
Nick Loewen
Patrick Melroy
Kenneth Morehouse
Ruby Osorio
Justine Ponthieux
Erin Payne
Cima Rahmankhah
Kerry Rodgers
Nano Rubio
Shilla Shakoori
Rimas K. Simaitis
Elizabeth Tinglof
Van Tran
Ian Trout
Matthew Waller
Christine Wang
Emily Wiseman
Kim Ye
Michael Zahn

Boom. is an exhibition highlighting artworks of all media from current and recent MFA graduates from invited Southern California institutions. This group exhibition unabashedly forays its artistic output into the public sphere, displaying the fearlessness, bravado and sense of risk-taking that is unique to Southern California’s emergent art community. The academic setting of the region has been instrumental as a location for gestation and experimentation on both the part of the students and the faculty. The collaborative nature between graduate student and faculty serves to reflect the most recent practices, ideologies and concepts in art making of the region. Southern California has an illustrious history within contemporary art practices that has subsequently influenced the art community worldwide. In addition to the content of the show, the enthusiasm of the students to interact within a larger setting is revealed through their own participation, which required much dedicated self-organization.

MFA Programs represented:
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Claremont Graduate University
California State University Northridge
Otis College of Art and Design
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Santa Barbara

IT ALL ENDS | JARED CLARK & MICHAEL KELLY | OPENING JULY 15, 7-10pm

Control Room
2006 East 7th Street
Downtown LA

Control Room is very excited to present new work by Jared Clark and Michael Kelly.

These artists are collectors and consumers. They are epic consumers. Prosumers. But the cultural divide between consumer and creator has eroded, upon which their process of editing, chewing, tinkering and reproducing collide with painterly backgrounds to produce an unstable experience of objects whose lives are without beginning or end. Clark utilizes the found object, and Kelly harnesses technology, each perhaps with the goal to discuss and return to the issues of painting. Painting remains the language around which Clark and Kelly discuss their work, despite both having moved into the realm of sculpture, video, installation, collection, digital imaging, and sometimes, paint. The work is smart without being austere, and like the show’s title, which hints at a very current and fleeting cultural reference, Clark and Kelly use references to pop-cultural imagery or the accessible materials of commodity culture, without being overt. Either strategically obscuring, or employing the obscure, their references activate imagined pasts or conceived futures by utilizing the familiar but perhaps forgotten. It’s difficult not to smile, in front of the playful, eerie, sometimes humorous, and certainly most vibrant installation Control Room has yet to present.

Jared Clark lives and works in Salt Lake City, UT. He received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 2007, and BFA at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT in 2002.

Michael Kelly lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, and is currently an MFA candidate at UCLA. He also received his BFA from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, where he first met and conspired with Jared Clark.

Both artists have been the recipients of numerous awards and residencies, which can be found along with exhibition histories on their websites:

jaredlindsayclark.com

michaeljohnkelly.com

IT ALL ENDS | JARED CLARK & MICHAEL KELLY
OPENING JULY 15, 7-10pm
Open on Sundays 11-5 and by appointment through August 7th.

Control Room
2006 East 7th Street
Downtown LA
control-room.org

Contact: William Kaminski / Evelena Ruether | info@control-room.org | 818 720 2713

i was in these:

Come to this.

bad photos of new work in progress. really busy studying right now, but wanted to post something new.

EDIT: This stuff ended up looking radically different.

thanks to this: drawing is like wicked easy now.