Circa 1998 Robert Kelly Mixed Media Canvas “Voices in Garden Xl”. Original Price: $6,500

Design Plus Gallery presents “Voices in Garden XI” an original art piece by Robert Kelly. This exuberant painted collage contains found print and materials found around the world, including antique botanical drawings, handwritten notes, small sketches, vintage posters, and signs. To create the foundation he layers the re-appropriated paper in irregular grids and shapes. Having laid his base, he paints abstract geometric shapes and meandering lines in oil and gouache. Little evidence of wear; condition is good for age and use.

“I have grown fond of the pared-down tools of line, form, and color and the bountiful yield of their juxtapositions, without the need of references or symbolic otherness to give them meaning,” he has said. Having laid the ground, he paints abstract geometric shapes and meandering lines in oil and gouache. In an effort to complicate the notion of a completed work, Kelly has deconstructed many of his canvases and rearranged them into abstract assemblages.