Mike Kelley

Laugh Riot (From the Sublime)
1983

Black and white illustration featuring two sections with bold text. The top section reads "KEEP IT CLEAN" and depicts a crowd of smiling faces looking down at a person lying in a bathtub, kissing a smiling face on a floating ball. The bottom section reads "LAUGH R.I.O.T" above and "THE REAL THING" below, showing a chaotic scene of exaggerated, laughing faces with the word "HA" repeated throughout. The artwork has a comic book style with a strong contrast between the black ink and the white background.

Black and white illustration featuring two sections with bold text. The top section reads "KEEP IT CLEAN" and depicts a crowd of smiling faces looking down at a person lying in a bathtub, kissing a smiling face on a floating ball. The bottom section reads "LAUGH R.I.O.T" above and "THE REAL THING" below, showing a chaotic scene of exaggerated, laughing faces with the word "HA" repeated throughout. The artwork has a comic book style with a strong contrast between the black ink and the white background.

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Date
1983

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Acrylic on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 41 7/8 × 28 9/16in. (106.4 × 72.5 cm)

Accession number
91.5

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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