2/2/12 REMEMBERING MIKE KELLEY, CALIFORNIA ARTIST FROM MICHIGAN: "Mike Kelley, California Artist, An Apparent Suicide at 57 By PATRICIA COHEN Mike Kelley, the multi-media post-Conceptual artist with a punk rocker sensibility, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, the Gagosian gallery, which represents him, confirmed. He was 57. Sgt Robert Bartl of the South Pasadena police department told the Associated Press that the death was an apparent suicide, but would not provide further information. Helene Winer, a partner in Mr. Kelley’s previous gallery, Metro Pictures in New York, said he had been depressed. “His friends had been worried, and they’d been talking to him and concerned, so it wasn’t unnoticed,” she said. “It’s such a shame. He was a remarkable young artist, brilliant, and very influe..." http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/mike-kelley-california-artist-dead-at-57/

2/2/12 REMEMBERING MIKE KELLEY, CALIFORNIA ARTIST FROM MICHIGAN: "Mike Kelley, California Artist, An Apparent Suicide at 57 By PATRICIA COHEN Mike Kelley, the multi-media post-Conceptual artist with a punk rocker sensibility, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, the Gagosian gallery, which represents him, confirmed. He was 57. Sgt Robert Bartl of the South Pasadena police department told the Associated Press that the death was an apparent suicide, but would not provide further information. Helene Winer, a partner in Mr. Kelley’s previous gallery, Metro Pictures in New York, said he had been depressed. “His friends had been worried, and they’d been talking to him and concerned, so it wasn’t unnoticed,” she said. “It’s such a shame. He was a remarkable young artist, brilliant, and very influe..."

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