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BRIAN KELLY RECEIVED A BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS FROM THE MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN IN 2002. HE RECEIVED A MASTER OF FINE ARTS FROM THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND - GALWAY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BURREN COLLEGE OF ART IN 2007.
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| "Kelly's visually arresting painting style demands attention - due simply to its scale and colourful style. One imagines this is the artist's intent, as the imagery too is deliberately provocative. With titles like I'm hungry for you and Best black tail in town, Kelly takes the superficial aesthetic of sex - industry flyers and advertisements and searches for redemptive qualities, or at least invites the viewer to. The pictoral planes, which are treated in flat areas of acrylic colour, are broken up often into diptychs and triptychs and transgressed with splashes of unidentified substances. The paintings draw a trajectory from raw libidinal energy and desire to mortality."
- CIRCA Art Magazine |
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