Margaret Kelley

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Margaret Kelley (born April 27, 1954 in Los Angeles , USA ) is an American painter and artist whose painting represents a fusion of the Abstract Expressionism of her homeland with European Informel .

Margaret Kelley studio

Life

In 1978 she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction with a minor in German at California State University , Long Beach , California .

In 1979 she continued her studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts as part of an academic scholarship from the Rotary Graduate Fellowship.

Back in the USA, she completed her Master of Fine Arts at California State University in 1985 under the tutorial of the renowned Professor John Lincoln . The first major solo exhibition “Journey” then took place in Long Beach. In the 8-meter picture, which stretched over the corners of the room, Kelley dealt with the concept of truth, influenced by the work of the artist group Spur and the philosopher Henri Bergson .

In 1987, Kelley caused a sensation in Los Angeles with a monumental 100-meter-long commissioned work on which she worked for months. The picture “Out of the Shadow into the Light of LA” is an examination of the European idea of ​​fateful predestination, in contrast to the American belief in the self-determination of the individual. As a result of this project, the renowned Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles , showed a solo exhibition of Kelley's works.

From 1987 to 1994 Kelley worked in a loft in downtown Los Angeles and during this time had regular exhibitions in Europe, including at the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven , the Society for Current Art - GAK, Bremen , and the Munich Municipal Gallery .

In addition to various exhibitions in Los Angeles, including the Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, Margaret Kelley was a visiting professor at California State University, Long Beach, California in 1999.

In 1991 Margaret Kelley received a scholarship in Germany for the Atelierhaus Worpswede , where she began work on the first cycle of the group of works “A Leap of Faith”, the subject of which she would occupy for 20 years.

After the scholarship in Worpswede, Kelley returned to her loft in LA for a few years before returning to Germany in 1994 and setting up her studio in Bremen in a disused pumping station from the Art Nouveau era .

In 1997 she had a guest residency at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation , Bellagio, Italy, where a cycle of monotypes was created.

In 2005 she was artist-in-residence at the Casa Zia Lina Foundation on Elba , Italy. Margaret Kelley lives and works today in Bremen and Worpswede .

Works in collections

  • Collection Homart Development Company, Los Angeles, California
  • Tousche Ross Company Collection, Century City, California
  • Collection Adriana Redevelopment Company, Munich
  • Collection Deloitte & Touche, Los Angeles
  • Collection of the Kreissparkasse, Osterholz
  • Collection of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation
  • Collection of the Willy Brandt House, Berlin

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985, Gallery B, Long Beach, California, USA
  • 1986, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • 1987, Gallery Werkstatt im Kunstblock, Munich
  • 1988, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • 1989, Gallery Ipomal, Landgraf, Holland
  • 1990, GalleryX, Munich
  • 1991, Society for Contemporary Art - GAK, Bremen
  • 1993, Städtische Galerie, Wilhelmshaven, catalog
  • 1993, Meppener Kunstkreis, catalog
  • 1995, Gallery Hübner-Nising
  • 1995, Galerie X, Munich, catalog
  • 1996, Worpsweder Kunsthalle Friedrich Netzel, Worpswede, brochure
  • 1996, Galerie Anais, Munich
  • 1997, Amerika Haus, Munich, brochure
  • 1997, Palaeontological Museum, Munich, brochure
  • 1997, Städtische Galerie, Vilshofen, brochure
  • 1997, "Open Art Festival", Gallery X, Munich, brochure
  • 1998, Klaus Braun Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 2000, Galerie X, Munich, Munich, brochure
  • 2000, gallery in the Forum Alte Werft, Papenburg
  • 2001, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
  • 2001, Galerie X, Munich
  • 2001, Hartmann and Noé Gallery, Berlin, brochure
  • 2002, Galerie Hohmann, Hamburg
  • 2002, “Open Art Festival”, Galerie Anais, Munich
  • 2005, GIERIG Kunstprojekte, Baker & Mckenzie, Frankfurt, catalog
  • 2006, Galerie Anais, Munich
  • 2006, Galerie Kreutzinger, Worpswede
  • 2007, Galerie Keller, Mannheim
  • 2007, Gallery Hart, Palm Desert, California, USA
  • 2007, Worpsweder Kunsthalle Friedrich Netzel, Germany, Catalog
  • 2008, Gallery Cohrs-Zirus, Worpswede, brochure
  • 2010, Municipal Gallery, Kings Christinen House, Zeven

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984, Wilhelm Morgner House, Soest
  • 1987, Los Angeles Design Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • 1987, furniture as art object, artist workshop, Städtische Galerie Munich, catalog
  • 1988, Downey Art Museum, Downey, California, USA
  • 1988, 2nd Treuchtlinger Art Festival, catalog
  • 1988, Vigado Municipal Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, catalog
  • 1989, Women's Building, Los Angeles, California, USA,
  • 1989, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, catalog
  • 1989, Kanagawa Perfectural Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan, catalog (printmaking)
  • 1990, Haus der Kunst Museum, Munich, catalog
  • 1991, Städtische Galerie am Domhof, Zwickau
  • 1992, "State of the Art 93", Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1993, "Large Summer Exhibition", Wasserburg / Inn, catalog
  • 1994, "The Large Exhibition Westfalia (NRW)", Düsseldorf, catalog
  • 1994, "Autumn Salon", Städtische Galerie Schloß Salder, Salzgitter, Germany, catalog
  • 1995, "Five selected artists from 30 years of Atelierhaus", Altes Rathaus, Worpswede
  • 1995, “Euroart”, European Artist Colonies, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1995, "Northwest Art", 2nd prize, printmaking, Städtische Galerie Wilhelmshaven, Germany
  • 1999, “Das Weserufer 1800–2000”, Städtische Galerie Wilhelmshaven, Minden Museum, Museum Nordenham, catalog
  • 1999, “Worpswede Today”, Worpsweder Kunsthalle Friedrich Netzel, Worpswede
  • 1999, "Sparkasse Collection", Osterholz-Scharmbeck
  • 2000, "Longing for Landscape", Worpsweder Kunsthalle Friedrich Netzel, Worpswede, catalog
  • 2001, Gallery Hart, Carmel, California, USA
  • 2001, “Painters Yesterday and Today”, Friedrich Netzel Art Foundation, Worpswede
  • 2002, “Herbstsalon”, Städtische Galerie Museum Schloss Salder, Salzgitter, catalog
  • 2002, “Twenty Years of Galerie Anais” (selected artists), Galerie Anais, Munich
  • 2003, "Eva and the Serpent", Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, catalog
  • 2006, “Contemporary Artists from Korpswede”, Kultur Forum Museum Langenfeld
  • 2006, "Three contemporary artists from Worpswede", Galerie Kreuztinger, Worpswede
  • 2007, Women's Museum Bonn, Bonn
  • 2008, Hockenheim Gallery, Hockenheim
  • 2014, Galerie im Barn, Lohrhaupten, Spessart

Exhibition catalogs

  • "Journey, Margaret Kelley", 1985, University Press
  • "Furniture as an Object of Art", 1987, university printing and publishing house
  • "The California Art Review," 1989, Lez Krantz, American References, Onc.
  • "Art 90", House of Art Munich, 1990,
  • "2. Treuchtlinger Kunsttage ”, 1991
  • “A Collection of Fine Art”, 1991, Hyatt Regency, Scottsdale Arizona
  • "Great Summer Exhibition", 1992, Working Group 68
  • "Great art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf, 1994", association for the organization of art exhibitions e. V. Düsseldorf
  • "Book as Art VII, 1994, The National Museum of Women in the Arts," Washington, DC
  • "Margaret Kelley The Burden and the Leap - the farewell letters", 1995, Galerie X, Munich
  • “Selection of the pictures 1995–1996 by M. Kelley from the cycle A Leap of Faith, Solomon's Song”, 1996, Worpsweder Kunsthalle Friedrich Netzel
  • "Open Art", Munich, 1997, initiative of Munich galleries of contemporary art
  • “Margaret Kelley, pictures from the cycle A Leap of Faith”, 1997, Amerika Haus Munich
  • “Margot's Song New Pictures from the A Leap of Faith Cycle”, 1997, Stadtgalerie Vilshofen
  • "Margaret Kelley Life and Passage - The River and its Shore", 1997, Paläontologisches Museum Munich
  • "Open Art Munich", 1998, initiative of Munich galleries of contemporary art
  • "Under the Great Heavens", Donata Holz, 1999, Kreissparkasse Osterholz
  • "Longing for Landscape", 2000, Worpsweder cultural institutions working group
  • "Margaret Kelley A Leap of Faith: the sequel", 2000, Galerie X, Munich
  • "M. Kelley, The Burden + the Leap - the farewell letters ", 2001, Galerie Hartmann + Noe, Berlin
  • “Salon Salzgitter 2001”, Salzgitter, news from Lower Saxony studios, Salzgitter municipal art collections
  • "Eva and the Snake", 2002, Kunstverein Bad Salsdetfurth e. V.
  • "M. Kelley, painting from 2004 ”, 2005, GIERIG-kunstprojekte, Frankfurt
  • “Worpswede Aktuell”, 2005, Agenda Group, “Art and Culture” of the Worpswede community
  • “Salon Salzgitter”, 2006, news from Lower Saxony studios, municipal art collections-Salzgitter
  • "17th Art fair in the women's museum ”, 2007, Verlag Frauenmuseum
  • "Paula, Great Hommage to Paula Modersohn-Becker", 2007, Verlag Frauenmuseum
  • “Selection of folding pictures from the cycle A Leap of Faith”, 2007, Kunsthalle Netzel, Worpswede
  • "Margaret Kelley, No More Than a Void", 2008, Galerie Cohrs-Zirus, Worpswede

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Bernd Küster on Margaret Kelley
  2. ↑ http://margaret-kelley.com/de/espresso/homart-project.html The Homart Project - Los Angeles Out of the Shadow into the Light of LA - 1987
  3. ↑ "An American in Northern Germany" by Dr. Jürgen Fitschen
  4. ↑ Margaret Kelley on the cycle "A Leap of Faith"
  5. ↑ a b c d Vita Margaret Kelly

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personal data
SURNAME Kelley, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , USA