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Wesley KimlerElly May Kelly, Three Panel Abstract Oil Painting of a Figure - Wesley Kimler2023
2023
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About the Item
Spanning across three canvas panels, Kimler uses vibrant colors of blue and yellow to background a deep red abstracted cyclops figure. Kimler's use of expressive brushstrokes and bright colors create an almost surreal out of this world image. The title, Elly May Kelly is a cheeky nod to the American painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly, known for his hard-edged, Minimalism and Color Field painting, and Elly May Clampett from The Beverly Hillbillies.
Wesley Kimler
Elly May Kelly, 2023
Oil on Canvas
72h x 72w in
182.88h x 182.88w cm
WYK021
Wesley Kimler (born 1953) an American artist based in Chicago, Illinois, is known for his colossal paintings, up to 15 feet high and 27 feet wide. According to critic Kevin Nance, these are "expressive, gestural, hybrid paintings that combine abstract and figurative elements in a way that's theatrical and beautiful, sometimes grotesque and surreal, and always powerfully evocative."
Wesley Kimler was born in Billings, Montana. His family moved to California in 1959, where Kimler lived until he left home at the age of 14. Thereafter, he lived in San Francisco, Taos, New Mexico (where he studied music), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Afghanistan. In that country, the then 20-year-old Kimler lived in Herat, Kandahar and Kabul, working as an agent for a dealer in traditional carpets.
Kimler first began to paint at the age of 21, studying one year at the Laguna Gloria School of Art in Austin, Texas and 2 years at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
The artist first showed in the mid 1980s at Frumkin-Struve (later simply Struve) Gallery in Chicago.
In addition to the Struve Gallery exhibitions in 1985, 86, 87 and 90, other notable shows by Kimler include those at Barbara Kornblatt Gallery in Washington, DC in 1986, LA Louver Gallery in Los Angeles in 1987 and 1990, Paula Anglim in San Francisco in 1990, "The Real Deal" with artists Ed Paschke and Tony Fitzpatrick in 1994, a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago solo exhibition in 1995, as well as inclusion in "Art in Chicago, 1945-1995" exhibition at the latter institution in 1996. Kimler's work can be seen in the group show "The Long Dream" currently at the MCA Chicago.
Kimler's art has been acquired by many institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, California, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in Chicago's Block Museum, Smart Museum, Aon Tower and Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as in numerous private collections.
Lisa Wainwright, a professor of art history and dean of graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has said of Kimler's art: "It's heroic, moral painting. He lives and breathes his art in the way the great painters did."
- Creator:Wesley Kimler (1953, American)
- Creation Year:2023
- Dimensions:Height: 72 in (182.88 cm)Width: 72 in (182.88 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Chicago, IL
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