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Mike Kelley, “Horizontal Tracking Shot of a Cross Section of Trauma Rooms,” (2009) Via Gagosian.

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On the back side of “Horizontal Tracking Shot of a Cross Section of Trauma Rooms,” are TV color bars, interspersed with videos depicting family life found on YouTube. (2009) Via Gagosian.

Currently showing at Gagosian Gallery in New York is an exhibition of paintings by Mike Kelley entitled “Horizontal Tracking Shots.” The show is Kelley’s first exhibit in New York which is devoted solely to paintings. In the past, his collaborative and solo shows have involved elaborate multimedia sets, symbolic performance art, theatrical spectacles, drawings and installation works. This body of work grew out of one of Kelley’s previous exhibitions entitled “Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions,” a kind of auto-biographical, multi-faceted project that began in 1995, involving sculpture, video narrative and themes of trauma and repressed memory.

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