Wall sculpture

“Many of Lee Kelly’s wall sculptures stand away slightly from the wall where they can also seem like immense brushstrokes. But there are ‘shadow’ versions of them, too the spaces just behind them. We can’t, of course, enter that space—the works remain, in this sense, two-dimensional. Yet it is there, and its contradictory ‘presence’ reminds us that the work is because of what it isn’t.”
— Randal Davis, Observatory at Jaipur (Leland Iron Works Press, 2015).

Untitled wall sculpture

Corten steel, 2019. 97” high.

Lee’s last major wall sculpture, which was found under Lee’s welding table two years after his death.

Lee Kelly
Bones Boxes D, 2009
Stainless steel element mounted in wooden box. White gold metallic leaf. 24” x 24” x 4.75”.

Lee Kelly
Bones Boxes S, 2009
Stainless steel element mounted in wooden box. White gold metallic leaf. 24” x 24” x 4.75”.

Lee Kelly
Goddess Glyph V, 2009
Steel collage with paint and metallic leaf mounted on wood. 9” x 9” x 1”.

Lee Kelly
Goddess Glyph VI, 2009
Steel collage with paint and metallic leaf mounted on wood. 9” x 9” x 1”.

Lee Kelly
Doubtful Sound I (blue), 2008
Fabricated mild steel wall sculpture, auto lacquer. 33” x 26” x 3”.

The Doubtful Sound series of wall sculptures were composed of identical sets of sculptures, one painted and one finished with metallic leaf,

Lee Kelly
Doubtful Sound I (silver), 2008
Fabricated stainless steel wall sculpture, metallic leaf. 33” x 26” x 3”.