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Adrian Kellard

Adrian Lee Kellard (Jan 28,1959 New Rochelle, NY- Nov.14 1991 New York, NY) was an American artist known for his woodcuts and sculptures of religious and often homoerotic imagery. Kellard died of complications due to AIDS.

Education and Work

Kellard studied at the State University of New York at Purchase from 1977 to 1980 under the guidance of Uruguayan artist Antonio Frasconi and Judith Bernstein. After leaving SUNY Purchase he apprenticed under Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt through the SUNY Empire State Program. Living in New York City, Kellard was represented first by Schreiber/Cutler Gallery in SoHo. From 1980- 1991 he exhibited in 6 solo shows and over 25 group exhibitions. Ownership of the gallery shifted in 1988 becoming Susan Schreiber Gallery where he was represented until his death.

Kellard's earliest works were woodcut prints which quickly led to his omitting the prints as his medium and creating the carved and painted wood blocks as the finished artworks. He freely drew upon an eclectic group of artists - Marsden Hartley, Picasso and Van Gogh in combination with religious imagery, "low" art and homosexual icons as the inspirations for his art. Kellard's works from 1983 were brightly colored and loudly didactic. In keeping with his goal of integrating religion into daily life many of his works were functional, i.e. desks, calendars and screens. In 1987 the artist was diagnosed with AIDS. Subsequently, a gradual change in his work appears. The work became less overtly religious and angry, and instead he began to use subdued colors and the tone became melancholy and compassionate.

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The Promise
1989
Painted Wood Carving

Death

On November 14, 1991 Kellard died of complications due to AIDS. At the time he was considered a long time survivor, having lived with the disease for five years. Since his death his work continues to be shown in such exhibitions as "All Faiths Beautiful" and "Race, Class, Gender ≠ Character" at the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore Maryland, "Precious" and "From Media to Metaphor" at the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center at New York University. Kellard is represented in the collections of the American Visionary Museum Baltimore, MD, St. Louis Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO, Prudential Insurance Company of North America, Newark, NJ, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY and Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY.

Resume

	b. January 28, 1959 New Rochelle, NY- November 14, 1991 New York, NY

Education	SUNY Purchase, New York, 1977-80 SUNY Empire State Program, New York, 1980-81

Awards	Pollock Krasner Foundation, 1988 McCall Foundation, 1988 Pollock Krasner Foundation, 1989

Solo Exhibitions	1993 1980 1986 1987 1989 1991	Adrian Kellard: Selected Work, Wildcliff Center for the Arts, New Rochelle, NY Prints, SUNY Purchase, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Susan Schreiber Gallery, NY Adrian Kellard: Healing… the Learned Art of Compassion, Susan Schreiber Gallery, NY Recent Work, Susan Schreiber Gallery, NY Adrian Kellard: Survey of Work from 1983-1990, SUNY Purchase, NY

Group Exhibitions	2009 2007 2005 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1983	Good Friday, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO All Faiths Beautiful, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Race, Class, Gender ¹ Character, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Art's Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME Significant Losses: Artists who have Died from AIDS, University of Maryland at College Park, MD Selected Works, Wildcliffe Art Center, New Rochelle, NY From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, NY Apocalypse and Resurrection,Gallery 30, NY Survey, Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY Unconditional Love, Susan Schreiber Gallery, NY The Subject is AIDS, Nexus, Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA A Density of Passions, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Revelations: Spiritual Art at the End of the Second Millennium, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA Painted Constructions/Constructed Paintings, Susan Schreiber Gallery, NYWall Constructions, Susan Schreiber Gallery, NY Contemporary Screens: Function, Decoration, Sculpture, Metaphor, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, OH; Lakeview Musem of Arts and Science, Peoria, IL Saints and Sinners: Contemporary Response to Religion, DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA Precious: An American Tradition of the 1980’s, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, NY Hidden Angles: Contemporary Folding Screens, The Gallery of Applied Arts, NY East Village Funk-tional, Rosa Esman Gallery, NY Sacred Artifact and Objects of Devotion,Alternative Museum, NY Window installations, Holly Solomon Gallery, NY Saints, Harm Bouckaert, NY Devotional Inspirations, Cathedral of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, NY

Collections	American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at St Louis University, St. Louis, MO Prudential Insurance Company of North America, Newark, NJ New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, NY Newberger Museum, Purchase, NY

Bibliography	Moufarrage, Nicholas, A., “Extended Icons,” The New York Native. October 11-24, 1982 Moufarrage, Nicholas, A., “Lavender: On Homosexuality and Art,” Arts Magazine, October, 1982 Butera, Virginia Fabbri and Komanecky, Michael, The Folding Image; Screens by Western Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984 (catalogue) Sokolowski, Thomas, W., Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, 1985 Glueck, Grace, “Art Show Propounds ‘Precious’ Aesthetic,” The New York Times, March 29, 1985 Glueck, Grace, “Religion Makes an Impact as a Theme in Today’s Art,” The New York Times, Sunday, April 7, 1985 Giovanni, Joseph, “The Folding Screen as Art Form,” The New York Times, May 12, 1985 Sturtevant, Alfred, “Hearts and Minds,” (review), The New York Times, May 12, 1985 Frawley, Joan, “Artists Turn to Religion,” National Catholic Register, June 23, 1985 Boyce, James Martin, “The Work of Adrian Kellard,” The Catholic Worker, May, 1986 Butera, Virginia Fabbri, Contemporary Screens, The Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco, 1986 Koyama, Hajime, “New York Express,” X-Men, December 1986 Howell, John, “Holy Images, Hot Art,” Elle, December 1986 Stapen, Nancy, “DeCordova Show Has Mass Appeal,” The Boston Herald, November 21, 1986 Dillenberger, John, A Theology of Artistic Sensibilities: The Visual Arts and The Church, Crossroad Publishing Company, New York, 1987 Dempsey, Terrence, E., “A Re-Assertion of the Spiritual,” Faith and Form: Journal of the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, Vol. XX, Spring 1987 Flack, Audrey, Revelations: Spiritul Art At the End of the Second Millenium, (catalogue), Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, 1988 Talley, Charles, “The Private Devotions of Adrian Kellard,” Surface Design Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 1989 Brenson, Michael, “A Density of Passion,” The New York Times, August 4, 1989 Watkins, Eileen, “State Museum Sculptures Arouse ‘A Density of Passion’,” The Sunday Star Ledger, August 20, 1989 Weld, Alison, A Density of Passions, (catalogue), New Jersey State Museum, 1989 Hirsch, David, “Christianity Thru Gay Eyes,” New York Native, June 11, 1990

References

Boyce, James Martin, “The Work of Adrian Kellard,” The Catholic Worker, May, 1986