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SELECTED WORKS BY Khalif Kelly

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Khalif Kelly
Kool-Aid Stand

2008

Oil on canvas

210.8 x 271.8 cm
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Khalif Kelly
Neighborhood Haircut Contest

2007

Oil on canvas

228.6 x 137.2 cm
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Khalif Kelly
Confrontation at the Clothesline

2007

Oil on canvas

182.9 x 213.4 cm

ARTICLES

FAIR WEATHER?
by Walter Robinson

The map of the Armory Show looks like a large phallus, with two square balls on either side of a long central shaft. And the layout of Volta resembles an abbreviated version of the circles of hell (an observation made at the press preview by Steve Kaplan).

Just what are they trying to say about the art market?

The vernissage for the 10th annual Armory Show, on Pier 94 on the Hudson River at East 55th Street on Mar. 26, 2008, went off without a hitch, with 150 dealers from 39 cities in 21 countries. The show had no special "benefit gala" this year, making admission easy for art professionals (and presumably simplifying the lives of the Armory Show staff).
Though the VIPs were typically blasé, noting the absence of any hot new names and the lack of the "feeding frenzy" that has characterized art fairs past, the dealers themselves reported good sales as often as not. Assemblage seems popular, while photography is scarce. With its emphasis on art by living artists, the show skews quite young.

The alternative space White Columns, which under its artist-director Matthew Higgs has embraced the low-end market with a vengeance, was doing a brisk business with its portfolio of signed black-and-white Xerox prints by artists such as Adam McEwen and Anne Collier, priced at 150 each in an edition of 50. The print by Nate Lowman, a jaunty found drawing from the Virginia Slims ad ("you've come a long way, baby"), is already sold out.

One new face from overseas is the Berlin-based artist and art professor Wiebke Siem (b. 1954) at the booth of Johnen + Schöttle, Köln. She makes large stick-figure sculptures of Styrofoam covered with cloth that are both melancholic and metamorphic. One work is a giant bunch of grapes, covered with dark pinstripe fabric, with two limp arms and a Pinocchio nose, while Loner, is a kind of inverted tree given oversized cartoon feet and a brown felt surface (in reference to Joseph Beuys, no doubt). The price is €16,000.

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Source: artnet.com