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Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley

Artist Jennifer Steinkamp American, born 1958
Date2007
MediumVideo installation
DimensionsDimensions variable; duration: 8 min. loop
ClassificationsTime Based Media
Credit LineGift in honor of Dr. Lawrence J. Wheeler, director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (1994-2018) from Julian T. Baker Jr., Rhoda L. and Roger M. Berkowitz, Dr. Thomas D. Brammer and Mr. Robert S. Watson, Angeline J. Bryant, Blake Byrne, Marion Johnson Church, Paul Edward Coggins, Dr. W. Kent Davis, Joyce Fitzpatrick and Jay Stewart, Dr. Carlos Garcia-Velez, Marty Hayes and Michael Cucchiara, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Hayes, Eric and Tara Hirshberg, Ian Huckabee, Bill G. Johnson, Thomas S. Kenan III, Suzanne R. McKinney, R. Glen Medders, Dr. Cynthia S. Payne, Melissa Peden and Robert Irwin, Susan L. Petry, Michael Rubel and Kristin Rey, Kimerly Rorschach, Jeffrey Williams and Patrick Sears, Allen G. Thomas Jr., Caroline Hickman Vaughan, Robert A. Sandefur and Robert P. Venuti, Drs. Zannie and Glenn Voss, Caroline and Richard Wright, and James Walker Crow; Technology funded with generous support from IBM Corporation
Object number2009.14
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated California, 2007; collection of the artist; [Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 2009.
Published ReferencesDenise Markonish, ed, Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape (exhibition catalogue) (Cambridge and North Adams: MIT Press and MASS MoCA, 2008), illus. (color) 205-07.

Linda Johnson Dougherty, "New Acquisition: Jennifer Steinkamp Video Installation," in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Fall 2010), discussed and illus. (color) 20-21.

Linda J. Dougherty, entry for Mike Kelley, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 564, illus. (color) 565.

0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh and Penland, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts, 2013), mentioned 19, illus. (color) 18 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryNorth Adams, MA, MASS MoCA, "Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape," May 25, 2008-April 12, 2009.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection,” September 9, 2020–February 14, 2021.

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, "Jennifer Steinkamp: The Technologies of Nature," December 18, 2021–August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–February 6, 2023.
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