Mary Reid Kelley

<p><b>Celebrates the first exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes objects and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and intellectually stimulating videos made in collaboration with Patrick Kelley.</b></p><p><i>Mary Reid Kelley</i> celebrates the first museum exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes objects and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and intellectually stimulating videos. An essay by curator Daniel Belasco analyzes the sources and significance of the working objects in how they promote the unreality effect of Mary Reid Kelley's videos which combine both the analog and digital and the personal and historical. A conversation between Corinna Ripps Schaming and Mary Reid Kelley and her long-time collaborator Patrick Kelley reveals insights into their working process. For the first time the full range of the artist's costumes props drawings furniture and accessories are photographed and presented as unique works of art.</p>