“...the catalogue documenting Day Is Done leaves no stone unturned. With 655 color plates (no, that is not a typo) immaculately printed in Germany,...it’s a visual and aural orgy for any fan of Kelley’s work.”
—Eric Banks, BookForum, June 2007
MIKE KELLEY
I first became aware of Mike through the experimental music scene, having heard about his band Destroy All Monsters. I first photographed his series of paintings Pay for your Pleasure around 1991 for MOCA. I shot an extra set of transparencies and sent them to Mike. He reacted very positively and we started working together. I documented his work and also started functioning as a director of still photography to help him make photographic works of art, as with his Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction projects. I did production stills for his video epic Day is Done. Mike sat for many portraits for me over the years I knew him. He became a member of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) related improvisational group known as Extended Organ along with Tom Recchion, Joe Potts, Paul McCarthy and me and we played music together from 1996 up until 2 weeks from the day he passed from this world in 2012. He was a dear friend and I miss him terribly.
MIKE KELLEY / Day is Done
MIKE KELLEY / Kandors
