VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

G Gallery in the Heights presents the exhibition KATHY KELLY:  Feet of Shadows Trudge this Space of Absence.  On view June 6 through June 22.

Kathy Kelley graduated with her MFA from the University of Houston in 2006. Since then, Kelley has been expanding her body of work that reanimates, repurposes objects of urban refuse while initiating and presiding over a new experimental art space in Houston, BOX 13 ArtSpace. Kelley was selected to participate in the 2009 Texas Biennial, was chosen for a solo exhibition at Women and Their Work in 2010, is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Houston Arts Alliance, and unveiled her first public installation, Suckling is continuous, in conjunction with BBAP, was featured in the May 2008 edition of ArtsHouston magazine, and was awarded Best of Show in the Seven-State Biennial Exhibition at the University of Science and Art of OK Art Gallery in 2007.

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I have fallen into a void where there is no individuality, no unique private world, no authorship or originality. I find myself not in utopia but dystopia. There is no space; there is no silence. All inventions have been invented and recombination replaces creation. I fight the void. I become incapable of representing my current experience except through things that already exist. I dredge the archives seeking new meaning through new combinations. A rapid rhythm of change accelerates as I move through the limited number of combinations.

Empty space is filled up. I consume all. Signifiers fail to link into coherent wholes. I pile up the appropriated fragments ceaselessly and empty them of their significance. The promise of new meaning evades me. The narrative stands still. Reality becomes that
which is defined by media. Life is subordinate to the laws of the market. High and low culture merge. I sense loss and I drink Diet Coke like a dog gets excited about going for a walk ON A LEASH