Mary Reid Kelley (Paperback)

Celebrates the first exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes, objects, and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and intellectually stimulating videos made in collaboration with Patrick Kelley.

Mary Reid Kelley celebrates the first museum exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes, objects, and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and intellectually stimulating videos. An essay by curator Daniel Belasco analyzes the sources and significance of the working objects in how they promote the "unreality effect" of Mary Reid Kelley's videos, which combine both the analog and digital and the personal and historical. A conversation between Corinna Ripps Schaming and Mary Reid Kelley and her long-time collaborator Patrick Kelley reveals insights into their working process. For the first time, the full range of the artist's costumes, props, drawings, furniture, and accessories are photographed and presented as unique works of art.

Daniel Belasco is Curator of Exhibitions and Programs at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Corinna Ripps Schaming is Associate Director and Curator of the University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York. Sara J. Pasti is Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz.