Daniel Kelly

Daniel Kelly was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho and grew up in Great Falls, Montana. He then attended university in Oregon. Before leaving for Japan over twenty five years ago, he spent $1.95 on the only art book he could afford. At the back of this small book by the woodblock print artist Tokuriki was an invitation, “if the reader of this book has a chance to visit Kyoto, feel free to contact the author.” Daniel Kelly went to Kyoto and learned traditional Japanese woodblock printing from Tokuriki.

Kelly is an exciting artist with and ever-changing style. All of his prints from the last several years have some element of mixed media, including woodblock, lithography, cement block printing, chine colle and hand coloring.

Kelly says of his process, “I really do not like it if I have a concept — it does not exist yet — and people say you are going to run into this and that problem. I want to slap those people out of my way. If there is a problem, I dig deeper. Painting and creative printmaking is like war. I get in there and battle and fight. It is either me or the image. One of us will win.”

Daniel Kelly has had many exhibitions, mainly in the United States and Japan, and is represented in the following collections: The British Museum, London, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, Cleveland Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, Portland State University, Oregon and the National Museum of American Art, Washington.

 

Kelly has lived and worked in Kyoto, Japan since 1977.

Prints

Publications

51-7nj7xg3l_ss500_“Daniel Kelly: An American Artist in Japan“

by Daniel Kelly

Foreword by Banana Yoshimoto

Commentary by Hollis Goodall

Price: $45.00

Kyoto-based artist Daniel Kelly has won international renown for his portrayal of Japanese themes in arrestingly unconventional forms. His paintings and prints of people, fish, paper lanterns, and landscapes are noteworthy for their innovative textures and materials, and for their physical impact-from some of the largest woodblock prints in Japan to “wall sculptures” that seem ready to explode from the wall on which they hang. His work has attracted the attention of leading art museums around the world and is held by a variety of prestigious institutions including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum.
Daniel Kelly: An American Artist In Japan chronicles Kelly’s journey as an artist from his arrival in Kyoto in the late 1970s to the present day. Full-page, full-color reproductions of eighty-five of his most important works from this period are accompanied by a comprehensive, illustrated catalogue raisonn? of all his editioned prints from 1977 to 2009, making this volume a must-have for collectors, students, and anyone with an interest in portrayals of Japan through contemporary art.

Size: 280×228 mm, 990 g

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 128 full color, 86 color plates of selected works

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