
Primordial Catholic
A riotous tangle of organic forms and symbolic imagery rendered in colored pencil and ink, this work channels Kelley's preoccupation with repressed memory, institutional religion, and the psychic residue of childhood. The rawness of the drawing's execution evokes the unfiltered energy of outsider art while remaining deeply calculated in its critique of Catholic iconography and ritual. Primordial Catholic pulses with an unsettling tension between the sacred and the grotesque, reflecting Kelley's broader interrogation of cultural conditioning and collective trauma.
- Medium
- coloured pencil and ink on paper
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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December 9, 2015
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