From October 13, 2013 through February 02, 2014, the MoMA PS1<\/strong><\/a> will present a comprehensive survey of the work of artist\u00a0Mike Kelley<\/a><\/strong> – one of the most influential artists of our time. The exhibition occupies the entire museum, bringing together over 200 works of Mike Kelley’s work from early pieces made during the 1970’s through 2012.\u00a0Mike Kelley (1954\u20132012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions\u2014which he set in relation to relentless self- and social examinations, both dark and delirious.<\/p>\n Through his art, Kelley explored themes as diverse as American class relations, sexuality, repressed memory, systems of religion and transcendence, and post-punk politics. He brought to these subjects both incisive critique and abundant, self-deprecating humour.<\/p>\n Kelley\u2019s work did not develop along a purely linear trajectory. Instead, he returned time and again to certain underlying themes\u2014the shapes lurking underneath the carpet, as it were\u2014including repressed memories, disjunctions between self-hood and social structures as well as fault lines between the sacred and the profane. The work Kelley produced throughout his life was marked by his extraordinary powers of critical reflection, relentless self-examination, and a creative\u2014and surprising\u2014repurposing of ideas and materials.<\/p>\n Born in Detroit, Kelley lived and worked in Los Angeles from the mid-1970s until his tragic death last year at the age of 57. Over his thirty-five year career, he worked in every conceivable medium-drawings on paper, sculpture, performances, music, video, photography, and painting.\u00a0Speaking of his early work and artistic concerns at large, Kelley had said, “My entrance into the art world was through the counter-culture, where it was common practice to lift material from mass culture and \u2018pervert\u2019 it to reverse or alter its meaning\u2026 Mass culture is scrutinized to discover what is hidden, repressed, within it.”<\/p>\n The MOMA PS1 exhibition includes Mike Kelley’s\u00a0Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites <\/em><\/strong>(1991\/1999) consisting of plush toys sewn over wood and wire frames with Styrofoam packing material, nylon rope, pulleys, steel hardware and hanging plates, fiberglass, car paint, and disinfectant, John Glenn Memorial Detroit River Reclamation Project<\/strong> <\/em>(Including the Local Culture Pictorial Guide, 1968\u20131972, Wayne\/Westland Eagle) and\u00a0Day is Done <\/em><\/strong>(2005\u201306) installation.<\/p>\n