Schiele-Kelly

In connection with the Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte performances at Ellen Stewart Theatre, a solo exhibition of Kelly’s newest self-portraits, based on the art and life of Egon Schiele, will be on view in La Galleria. This exhibition, Schiele~Kelly, will include small and large-scale black & white and color photographic prints.

The gallery hours will be extended to 7:30 Thursday through Saturday for the run of this exhibition to give Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte audience members an opportunity to view the art before the curtain.

A catalogue of John Kelly’s body of work inspired by Schiele will be available for purchase at La Galleria and online. To purchase the catalogue click here.

John Kelly

John Kelly (Choreography, Direction) is a performance and visual artist who has created over 30 performance and dance theater works that have been performed at many performance and alternative venues, including The Tate Modern, The Kitchen, The Warhol Museum, the Whitney Biennial, Dance Theater Workshop, The Sundance Theatre Lab, La MaMa ETC, Performance Space 122 and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.

Originally trained as a dancer with American Ballet Theatre and the Harkness House for Ballet Arts, Kelly performed with modern dance pioneer Charles Weidman and studied with James Waring. Among the many awards Kelly has earned are two Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards; two Obie Awards; the American Choreographer Award; a 2001 CalArts/ Alpert Award in Dance/Performance. Fellowships include a 2006-07 Rome Prize in Visual Art at The American Academy in Rome; The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard; The Guggenheim Foundation; The New York Foundation for the Arts; The National Endowment for the Arts; and Art Matters, Inc.