Article: Mike Kelley: we all have things wiped from our memories. Sometimes that's good, sometimes not. But Mike Kelley's sculptures and installations are impossible to forget--he challenges what we see and how we see it. He plumbs the depths of childhood, repressed memory, psychoanalysis, and pop mythos--but that's just the starting point for an individual speculative universe where things make startling, weird sense.(Interview)

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It has been my experience that if a work of art, or a song, or even a person, confuses you at first, maybe pisses you off a little bit, then chances are it's really, really good. I remember that's how I felt the first time I saw work by Mike Kelley at Metro Pictures in New York. I think I didn't like the work, but I spent an hour looking at it, and I remembered the name Mike Kelley the next day.

I figure it took me as long to get it and to like it as it took me to get "Paint It, Black" by the Rolling Stones. Overnight? But that means that it changed my brain, which is what all art worthy of the handle does. What was this stuff ...

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