Dont
Stop Till You Get Enough
Douglas Rex Kelaher
10th April - 3rd May
The second show in the Hard Sell
series is Dont Stop Till You Get Enough, by Dunedin based
artist and interior designer Douglas Rex Kelaher, a founding member
of influential artist run space The Blue Oyster Gallery. Kelaher
merges his own artistic practice with his skill as a designer and
manufactor to create detailed artificial environments which resemble
film sets, or mockup interior models for fictional corporations.
Slick and uber-minimal, these works refer to both the stark 60s
work of Donald Judd and Robert Morris and retro science fiction,
being both beautifully constructed yet deliberately over-produced,
sliding somewhere between simulation and reality.
For Dont Stop Till You Get Enough Kelaher
turns these minimal modes of practice on their head, with a large-scale
work which positively screams the eighties. Taking the
concept of overproduction to its very extreme, this oversized
epic public sculpture is rendered in a palette of ultra Day-Glo,
splattered over a giant wooden construction. In a quirky and twisted
addition, the work comes complete with battens, offered up to viewers
to wield against the sculpture, allowing audiences to vent all their
frustrations with contemporary art and minimalism. Dont stop
till you get enough!
Purchase the HARDSELL!! catalogue
Hardsell!! Postcard
Douglas Rex Kelaher
Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
Reviews, Essays & Articles Artscene
The Package, #143, April 18 - 24, 2002
Sally McIntyre
HARDSELL - BECAUSE YOU WANT IT!
DOUGLAS KELAHER - Artist Q&A
In The Physics Room Annual 2002
ISBN# 0-9582359-1-0
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