Artist: Mitchell Kehe
Exhibition title: All the World’s Organs
Venue: 15 Orient, New York, US
Date: November 15 – December 5, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and 15 Orient, New York
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They saw it moving slowly between the trees. It was round like a wheel but not a perfect circle as it probably once was. It rolled nervously over cracking twigs and dry underbrush. It was at least a few hundred feet from the road if not more.
They couldn’t tell how it was able to find its way. Maybe it was lost. It seemed to have a defined shape but within that form it was shifting, like a cuttlefish. It contained a barely visible interior that rotated and sparked as it rolled in its lopsided rhythm. Someone said they thought they heard it crying but the others just heard a low scraping sound.
It was unnatural or some aggregate of natural materials cooked and mutated, bent and cut, molded into its abstract form. At least, it felt abstract among the trees; probably less so in the constructed human world where, it must feel more comfortable among the other monsters and mutants.
Mitchell Kehe, “All The World’s Ograns”, installation view
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 6 , fabric and oil pastel on board, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, “All The World’s Ograns”, installation view
Mitchell Kehe, “All The World’s Ograns”, installation view
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 1 , fabric, oil pastel, felt tip marker, and paper on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 1 , fabric, oil pastel, felt tip marker, and paper on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 1 , fabric, oil pastel, felt tip marker, and paper on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, “All The World’s Ograns”, installation view
Mitchell Kehe, “All The World’s Ograns”, installation view
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 4 , corduroy, oil pastel, acrylic paint and paper on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 4 , corduroy, oil pastel, acrylic paint and paper on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 4 , corduroy, oil pastel, acrylic paint and paper on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, “All The World’s Ograns”, installation view
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 2 , Fabric, oil pastel, oil stick and inkjet printed film still on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 2 , Fabric, oil pastel, oil stick and inkjet printed film still on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 2 , Fabric, oil pastel, oil stick and inkjet printed film still on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 2 , Fabric, oil pastel, oil stick and inkjet printed film still on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 3 , Fabric, oil pastel and oil stick on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 3 , Fabric, oil pastel and oil stick on wood panel with aluminum frame, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 9 , graphite and colored pencil on found paper and drawing paper, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 9 , graphite and colored pencil on found paper and drawing paper, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, “All The World’s Ograns”, installation view
Mitchell Kehe, Untitled 5 , fabric and graphite on board, 2018
Mitchell Kehe, The slow and quiet movement of time which belongs only to the unwell and inanimate , assorted fabric, acrylic paint, oil paint, oil pastel and oil stick on two adjoining wood panels with aluminum frame, 2019
Mitchell Kehe, The slow and quiet movement of time which belongs only to the unwell and inanimate , assorted fabric, acrylic paint, oil paint, oil pastel and oil stick on two adjoining wood panels with aluminum frame, 2019