Mike Kelley: Jerry Meandering

This November, in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘Mike Kelley: Jerry Meandering,’ an exhibition focused on the artist’s works on paper, some of which will be shown publicly for the first time. Bringing together prints, mixed-media drawings and collages created during Kelley’s undergraduate years at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1972 – 1976), the exhibition—which takes its name from a suggestive print of Gerald Ford and his wife made in 1976—offers a rare look at his earliest experimentations with form, material and the unstable meanings our culture assigns to images. The presentation also features a selection of Kelley’s Untitled (Collages 1974 – 2011) works, a series he revisited and altered near the end of his life, reflecting his enduring interest in memory, repression and the construction of personal and cultural histories.