Art - click on link below to view nifty sets of my art and shows I've curated:
www.flickr.com/photos/twistedpoodleart/sets/

Self taught artist. I just woke up one day at age forty and had this obsessive urge to create, which continues.

"Just woke up one day" isn't quite accurate. Actually it's the evil telepathic monkey that's been following me for quite some time. Evil may be too strong a word, but what else would you call a monkey that follows you everywhere and pulsates signals into your skull, telling you what to do? Now obviously he doesn't tell me what to do with words, monkeys can't talk, that would be crazy! But I'm sure it's him behind it, putting these obsessive images in my brain that I have to create in order to survive.

Sometimes I'll turn around real fast, and swear I'll catch a glimpse of his tail scurrying around a building. Or hear the leaves through the bushes rustle, and yet see nothing. Sometimes I lie in bed at night when it's really quiet and hold my breath- I can hear an ever so faint grunting outside my window, and I know he's there.

It's ok, I'm used to it, but my biggest fear is one day I'll turn around and he shall not have scampered away, but stand boldly in front of me.

So I go on creating, and I stopped looking over my shoulder. What else can I do?

I also like cooking and downhill skiing.

RESUME:

First 40 years: completely shunned by the art world (true, I wasn't creating anything, but it still stings!)

SELECTED SHOWS:

July/August 2006-2011 "Unfiltered I-VI. Outsider art show I also curate. First 3 years at Octane Gallery Ferndale, moved to Detroit Industrial Projects gallery in '09 which I took over in '11 (see Funhouse Gallery).
www.realdetroitweekly.com/content/article_5457.shtml

www.flickr.com/groups/797085@N21/


October 2006 "Kiln Mall", Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit

October 2006 & '07 "Annual Halloween Art Show" Chicago IL.

Jan 2007 "Raw Arts Festival", CVB gallery, NYC.
www.artfairsinternational.com/?p=209

Feb 2007, Sep '09, Feb '10 The Dirty Shows # 8, 10.5, 11 Bert's Wharehouse, Detroit

June 2007 solo show, Majestic Cafe, Detroit .

The People's Arts Festival I-IV, '07-'10 Russell Industrial Center, Detroit.
In '09 got a blurb in Real Detroit:
www.realdetroitweekly.com/content/article_5626.shtml


Feb '08- Grosse Pointe Art Association annual juried members show. (also in several other GPAA shows over past couple years)

August '08- Image Meets Text, Russell Industrial Project,
painted a wall mural for group show
www.flickr.com/photos/twistedpoodleart/2797407149/in/set-...

October '08- Ghouls-A-Go-Go, Majestic Cafe, Detroit.
Halloween group show I also curated.
detroit.metromix.com/events/article/ghouls-a-go-go/643634...

October '08 & '09, Damned I & II: A Macabre Fine Art Show, Tangent gallery, Detroit

Hatched March '07, Hatchback III March '09, Hamtramck's art collective annual juried member's show, Hamtramck, MI

May 25th '09 "Art Goes Bowling", Arsenal Lanes, Pittsburgh

August-Sept '09 Meth and Hot Dogs, group show, Cranky Yellow, St. Louis

Art All Night 2010, April 24-25, Pittsburgh PA

April 2010 - SINGULART ll, El Hierro, Canary Islands, SPAIN

July/Aug 2010, "It Came From the Gutter", Majestic Lanes Detroit. Bowling pin art show I also curated.
www.realdetroitweekly.com/detroit/stage-and-canvas-june-2...

December '10 "Cindy Lou Who's Holiday Art Spectacular!", Majestic Cafe, Detroit. Holiday art show I curated.

Jan/Feb '11 "Works on Pilfered Wood", solo show
Majestic Cafe, Detroit.

April/May '11 Meth & Hot Dogs 2, Lift Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

May/June '11 Oil and Water, group theme show Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI.

June/July, Funhouse Gallery Grand Opening! Vinyl Redux Show featuring altered vinyl record art. Detroit, MI. Opening June 4th

For more Funhouse shows see:
www.flickr.com/people/funhousedetroit/

LOCAL BUSINESSES FEATURING (or have featured) MY ART:
El Gato Salon, Ferndale MI
American Pop, Ferndale, MI
Sugar Kisses, Berkley, MI
The Beat Cafe, Warren, MI
Gallery Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA
Ed's Meds, Detroit, MI

AWARDS:

July 2006 Detroit Metro Times annual Lit contest, Honorable Mention for Sequential Art (comics) category.
www.metrotimes.com/archives/story.asp?id=9483

Summer 2006 Ramble Underground, winner online short fiction contest.
www.rambleunderground.org/underground_summer06_003.htm

Honorable mention Grosse Pointe Art Association members show '08


LINKS:

Myspace site:
home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user&MyToken=d4...

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=589518165

My wife's band, punk rock for kids:
www.candyband.com/

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    Sakanta Running Wolf says:

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    25th August, 2007

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    ashley reaks says:

    "Mike's art is so free and full of the alive, curious and sponteneous child. I love the wildness in Mike's work...risk-taking, unencumbered by rules and prolific..it feels like a huge burst of energy that's been waiting for it's time to come...which is now!"

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    Bradley Wind says:

    "MIKE KELLY!
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    "Mikey..Mikey..Mikey, oh Mikey! The man who woke up one day & realized he was an artist. THANK GOD!! Mikey IS an artist, without doubt. Mikey pushes subject matter that is both personal & strangely universal. Never would i think such a strange & delightful fellow as Mikey would be able to stretch so communicatively...but he does! His work is extremely accessible if you have but half a heart & a bit of intellect. Mikey's work is profound in the way that it expresses 100% more than what is displayed. The art istself is raw & antagonistic; The message is clear: Fear not & do not pitty such ideas...as these are my own! Mikey IS AN ARTIST!!!....and i've already wathced him grow in only a very very short period of time. We will watch what happens in the dawn of an artist w. great anticipation!!!!!!!!!!"

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Name:
Mike Kelly
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Hometown:
Detroit
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Male
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Pathologist
Email:
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