{"id":13,"date":"2011-11-01T07:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:41:53","slug":"info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/info\/","title":{"rendered":"Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ColleenMKelly-flyer-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-440 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ColleenMKelly-flyer-Copy-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"ArtInThePark_Flyer\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ColleenMKelly-flyer-Copy-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ColleenMKelly-flyer-Copy-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ColleenMKelly-flyer-Copy-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Levin-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-441 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Levin-Poster-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"MiniParkGasStation_Poster\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Levin-Poster-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Levin-Poster-768x1013.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Levin-Poster-777x1024.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-443 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-front-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Postcard, front\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-front-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-front-768x1129.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-front-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-front.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-442 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-back-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"DreamPortal_PostcardBack\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-back-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-back-768x1129.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-back-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Postcard-back.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhhMaW8f5s8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tT86NS5MeA8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/portrait.jpg 590w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/portrait-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Escaping the Matrix, HuffPost Article by Shana Nys Dambrot, 6\/18\/15<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-488 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577736-1128468-Colleen_Kelly__Dressed-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577736-1128468-Colleen_Kelly__Dressed-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577736-1128468-Colleen_Kelly__Dressed-768x991.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577736-1128468-Colleen_Kelly__Dressed-794x1024.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><br \/>\nLike paper dolls from the latter days of Mad Men, altered by a presence of physical graffiti, the monotypes with chine coll\u00e9 in Colleen M. Kelly\u2018s disarming series Naked Under Her Clothes are subversive and subtle, sexy but not sexual, traditional and unconventional, subliminal and right there on the surface. What appear to be expressive nudes rendered in a language of gestural, eccentric line drawing, draped in transparent or translucent retro fashions, is in fact nearly the opposite. The nudes did come first \u2014 but in these prints, they exist on top of the clothes, hovering over the garments even as they occupy them. This paradoxical and slightly hallucinatory format is both the literal result of the chine coll\u00e9 print studio process that produced them, and the conceptual consequence of the political circumstances that inspired them \u2014 plus a healthy dose of serendipity and resourcefulness in creative problem-solving.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-489 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577864-2606793-Colleen_Kelly__StandingFigure3-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577864-2606793-Colleen_Kelly__StandingFigure3-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577864-2606793-Colleen_Kelly__StandingFigure3-768x991.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577864-2606793-Colleen_Kelly__StandingFigure3-793x1024.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the case of Naked Under Her Clothes, the context of creation and the particulars of process are even more salient than usual to the meaning of the work \u2014 integral in fact. She had been working for some time on these charming, slightly eerie nude studies, in the vein of Picasso\u2019s expressive single-line Vollard Suite etchings or even the whimsical near-abstraction of John Lennon\u2019s own drawings. At a certain point, Kelly was unexpectedly confronted with the need to comply with a nudity ban at the county art gallery in Santa Barbara where she was planning to exhibit them. Naked Under Her Clothes thus came to represent a response to this outrage, tapping into her deep and enduring feminist roots along with her sense of irony and humor. And all of this is contained not only in the visual language of her images, but in the serendipitous method by which she was able to construct them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-490 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577950-8514651-Colleen_Kelly__RedJacket-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577950-8514651-Colleen_Kelly__RedJacket-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577950-8514651-Colleen_Kelly__RedJacket-768x992.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434577950-8514651-Colleen_Kelly__RedJacket-793x1024.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Vintage dress-making patterns were, oddly enough, quite plentiful in the print shop where she works. They were commonly salvaged for the tissue paper, while the envelopes printed with<br \/>\nquirky and colorful sketches of the clothes were discarded. The plate sizes of Kelly\u2019s nudes is generally small, under six inches, and it turned out that the models on those envelopes were<br \/>\nabout the same size as her figures. The idea took hold rather quickly, and Kelly began \u201cdressing\u201d her figures accordingly. But what began as a political workaround soon took on unique formal imperatives and an inner life of its own. Although the \u201cdressed\u201d figures constitute a self-contained series, Kelly often chooses to show them in pairs or otherwise matched up with the original nudes in their birthday suits. This generates among other insights, the realization that the same anatomical armature is capable of telling wildly di erent stories depending on what they are wearing; and furthermore, one can see the same nude wearing di erent outfits and yet barely recognize her even when it\u2019s pointed out \u2014 just like in real-life fashion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-492 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578111-4952787-Colleen_Kelly__Bridal-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578111-4952787-Colleen_Kelly__Bridal-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578111-4952787-Colleen_Kelly__Bridal-768x996.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578111-4952787-Colleen_Kelly__Bridal-789x1024.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On most of Kelly\u2019s prints, the chine colle\u1dc7 \u201cescapes the matrix\u201d \u2014 a term with a wonderful semiotic expansiveness simply indicating that the applied image sits beyond the frame created by the edges of the etched plate. Cheeky gingham frocks, crisp trouser pleats, sweeping chiffon ballgowns, flowing scarves, stockinged legs and elegantly shod feet unfurl over the threshold. Sometimes arms and legs are all that appear from the pattern, leaving the nude undressed save for boots or a charming hat like in that old Randy Newman song. The visual effect is assertive and eccentric, providing the image with a sense of movement and narrative emotionality. In a sense it\u2019s really another kind of matrix altogether that they are escaping \u2014 the frame of civic dominion, conservatism, and body shaming that had threatened to trap them in a quagmire of misunderstanding<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-491 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578035-1349349-Colleen_Kelly__PartyHats-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578035-1349349-Colleen_Kelly__PartyHats-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578035-1349349-Colleen_Kelly__PartyHats-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578035-1349349-Colleen_Kelly__PartyHats-792x1024.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-493 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578291-262197-Colleen_Kelly__WardrobeMalfunction-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578291-262197-Colleen_Kelly__WardrobeMalfunction-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578291-262197-Colleen_Kelly__WardrobeMalfunction-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-06-17-1434578291-262197-Colleen_Kelly__WardrobeMalfunction-788x1024.jpg 788w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/shana-nys-dambrot\/colleen-m-kelly-escaping-_b_7607438.html\">Original Article on HuffPost Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Escaping the Matrix, HuffPost Article by Shana Nys Dambrot, 6\/18\/15 Like paper dolls from the latter days of Mad Men, altered by a presence of physical graffiti, the monotypes with chine coll\u00e9 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/info\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Info<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colleenmkelly.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}