David Richard Gallery is pleased to present James Kelly: Seven Decades of Painting, From California Abstract Expressionism to New York’s Downtown Scene, a survey of the artist’s lifelong commitment to painting as evident in 12 distinct representations from his oeuvre including: hard-edge geometric paintings from the 1940’s, California Abstract Expressionism from the 1950’s, Pop from the 1960s, Minimalism from the 1970s, and even his last painting representing the artist’s return to his own personal language of painterly abstraction from the 1980s and onward. James Kelly (1913 – 2003) is an American Painter. He was championed by Walter Hopps and included in his first curatorial foray, the seminal Merry Go Round exhibition of 1955. In Los Angeles, Kelly was one of the original artists at The Ferus Galley. Kelly’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitey Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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