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Post by hector23 on Apr 29, 2009 16:31:27 GMT -8
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Post by jediak on Apr 30, 2009 4:34:25 GMT -8
I enjoy his work thoroughly but must admit a preference to his pieces that predate this chapter of his work, best way i can word it is that I find his newer pieces a little too lose in their execution or composition as compared to his work from say 3,4 years ago.
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Post by hector23 on Apr 30, 2009 7:21:28 GMT -8
You know in a lot of ways I agree with you. The first work I saw struck me deeply. It was very powerful and spiritual and had a high degree of representational craftsmanship. The recent looser style (especially a lot of the work at the new image show) had a transitional feel. He is moving towards something else. The reason I purchased the piece I did had a lot to do with it appearing to build a bridge between those two styles. Many contemporary/lowbrow/street artists appear to find a style and stick quite closely to it. I personally like to see growth and change over the course of an artist's life and encourage it with purchases that challenge my previously held aesthetic. I think Jeff Soto's work over the past few years has also shown that and was happy to purchase a work that expanded upon his initial style. This is the piece of his I bought early last year www.riversideartmuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/fly-away-48-x-24-acrylic-on-wood-20081.jpg |
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Post by sleepboy on May 6, 2009 22:24:54 GMT -8
Some new prints. I like these alot better than the paintings with the entire bodies in them. Are these a new style or an older one?   |
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Post by gildoinc on May 7, 2009 9:13:25 GMT -8
These two new prints are very similar to the work from Kelsey's most recent show at New Image Art.
He posted two new works on his website, "Feast" and "Tiger Tiger". I think this is a very exciting direction for him. These pieces feel grand, while staying true to the detailed brush work he did for the New Image Art show.
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Post by gildoinc on May 7, 2009 9:22:41 GMT -8
Kelsey's new work. I think "Feast" is a phenomenal direction for him.   |
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Post by hector23 on May 7, 2009 9:38:29 GMT -8
love his palette
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Post by ricosg11 on May 7, 2009 10:21:44 GMT -8
those are awesome, not loving the prints though. The text is superb.
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Post by gildoinc on Jun 6, 2009 17:34:05 GMT -8
Kelsey is taking part in a group show at Quint Contemporary Art in LA Jolla. The show is called Homing In: An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists He also just announced he will be having a solo show their later this year. quintgallery.com/ |
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Post by sleepboy on Oct 6, 2009 11:06:29 GMT -8
 He posted up some sneak peaks from his upcoming show on his blog. |
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 8, 2009 9:04:16 GMT -8
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Post by virtu on Nov 8, 2009 9:20:06 GMT -8
Loving Brookes work.
Artist to watch....
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Post by gildoinc on Nov 8, 2009 13:35:27 GMT -8
I love Kelsey's new work. I'm pretty sure he was initially going to be taking part in a group exhibition at Quint. Don't know what happened, but it's great that he got a solo. I'm really looking forward to seeing the preview when it's out. Here is one of the pieces in our collection.  Will is Subordinate to Reason 72X36 (Diptych) |
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Post by gildoinc on Nov 25, 2009 16:13:53 GMT -8
Nice article about Kelsey in artltd. I'm a big fan of the new show at Quint.  |
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 19, 2010 22:24:18 GMT -8
some new pieces from his explosions series.   |
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Post by gildoinc on Mar 1, 2010 21:33:36 GMT -8
Sorry about the crappy Iphone pick. I'm sure this is old news but I found this today. Kelsey did the cover art for Grand Ole Party album Humanimals.  |
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Post by stingers on Mar 10, 2010 13:01:06 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 6, 2010 19:25:36 GMT -8
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Post by gildoinc on Jun 8, 2010 21:02:19 GMT -8
Kelsey had a great review in the June issue of ARTnews
ARTnews – National Review – Kelsey Brookes: Bigger, Bighter, Bolder by Robert L. Pincus
Kelsey Brookes intricately assembles large iconlink images from countless minute paintings of beings and things that maybe related to the central subject or may not. Inside the form of a trumpeting elephant’s head or a dancing female figure, the viewer may come upon cartoonish creatures with boxy mouths and big ears, snippets of text, eyeballs with links to Buddhist and Hindu iconography, and a wide assortment of other curiosities. The overall effect is pleasingly maximalist.
Brookes’s technique suggests affinities with Ryan McGinness and Shepard Fairey. And like those artists, Brookes is a crossover figure. Straddling the worlds of graphic design and art, he has attracted a fan base from the surf and skate cultures for his illustration work. But this exhibition, “Bigger, Brighter, Bolder,” with 12 large paintings and an assortment of tiny ones, demonstrated that Brookes isn’t content simply to adapt his established style to canvas. The imagery here was looser, more painterly and the array of symbolic forms more expansive.
There were three broad categories of paintings on view. Most numerous were the animal portraits. Each creature depicted looked a bit generic in contour and pose, but the cornucopia of little forms within supplied a seductive energy. By contrast, the tondo paintings, all with slender rays radiating from the center like a cosmic pinwheel, were forceful and polished. Tiger, Tiger (2009) by itself constituted the third group. It’s imagery is derived from William Blake’s poem “The Tyger,” but Brookes’s palette verges on the psychedelic, and the picture incorporates Blake’s text into its landscape with a dreamlike effectiveness. If this work signals a new, higher ambition to bring together concept and form, background and subject, detail and grand design, then Brookes is an artist worth following.
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Post by gildoinc on Jun 29, 2010 22:49:33 GMT -8
Kelsey's painting "Goofball Gobbledy-Gook" is featured in the July issue of Playboy Magazine. I stole this image from his blog.  |
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Post by svenman on Jun 30, 2010 12:38:00 GMT -8
But were you Reading playboy or his blog when you found it?  |
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Post by gildoinc on Jun 30, 2010 12:47:48 GMT -8
I haven't seen the image in the magazine yet but I told Kelsey if I get in trouble with the wife for buying Playboy I am sending all the blame his way.
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Post by gildoinc on Jul 19, 2010 21:24:15 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 9, 2010 9:07:45 GMT -8
He posted some teaser pics from his studio on his blog for his upcoming show in Berlin ( showthread here).    |
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Post by gildoinc on Nov 9, 2010 9:44:32 GMT -8
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love Kelsey's work! Wish I could see this show in person.
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