Goodbye Mike Kelley. From the back cover of Catholic Tastes, published by the Whitney Museum of Art and Abrams on the occasion of Kelley’s 1993 retrospective exhibition.

A response from artist Mike Kelley, scanned from Mortal Remains, a self-published book from the 1996 survey project by Don Celender and Ricardo Bloch.

It’s hard for me to pick a favorite object in the collection that forms artist Mike Kelley’s 1991 installation Craft Morphology Flow Chart but I’d say this marker-detailed cat is in the top five. Photographed a couple weeks ago at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

A new addition to the Public Collectors collection of Complete Publications in PDF form.

Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley, Heidi: Midlife Crisis Trauma Center And Negative Media Engram Abreaction Release Zone, 1992, 40 pages, Gallerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 5.5 ” X 8 1/4 “.

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This 1992 booklet for a collaborative exhibition is designed more like an artist book. There is an essay by Timothy Martin, along with CVs for both artists and illustrations of their individual works, however the most unique feature is the collection of source photos that inspired this project. Among the sources are images from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, an Otto Dix painting, a tattoo design and Austrian kitsch.

The cover of Mike Kelley’s 1993 artist book and exhibition catalog The Uncanny, published for the international art exhibition Sonsbeek 93 in the Netherlands.