Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly (b. 1956) is an American abstract artist known for geometric paintings and works on paper that combine collage, printmaking, and layered surface construction. Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kelly earned his BA from Harvard University in 1978 and has developed a practice shaped by sustained engagement with art history, architecture, systems, and the visual cultures encountered through extensive travel. His compositions are built through processes of cutting, layering, mirroring, and repetition, often incorporating fragments of printed material beneath painted surfaces to create subtle tensions between order and disruption. Kelly frequently explores ideas of doubleness, symmetry, opposition, and reflection, using paired or related forms to create compositions that feel both structured and dynamic. Although rooted in the formal vocabulary of Post-Minimalist abstraction, his work carries traces of historical and cultural references gathered from a wide range of sources, allowing geometry to function not simply as design but as a means of organizing memory, place, and visual experience. His work is held in major public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Kelly lives and works in New York.
Available Works
2020
Pigment Ink Print on Natural Cotton Rag 360 GSM
42 x 35 in.
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered by artist
2020
Pigment Ink Print on Natural Cotton Rag 360 GSM
42 x 35 in.
Edition of 30
Signed and numbered by artist
Paper 35" x 47" / Image: 26" x 37"
Pigment Ink Print / Deckeled Cotton Rag 360GSM
Edition: 30 / Signed and Numbered
Paper 35" x 47" / Image: 26" x 37"
Pigment Ink Print / Deckeled Cotton Rag 360GSM
Edition: 30 / Signed and Numbered
Year: 2018
Medium: Relief Woodblock, Chine Colle
Size: 42.25 x 33.25 in.
Edition of 30 (From AP of 8)
Year: 2018
Medium: Relief, Woodblock, Chine Colle
Size: 42.25 x 33.25 in.
Edition of 30 (This is AP 6 of 8)