CONNERSMITH is pleased to announce ACCESS | BENJAMIN KELLEY: KILL A HORSE

Benjamin Kelley presents a fascinating cross-section of material culture in his most recent series, “Kill A Horse” (a title inspired by the 1904 Cadillac advertising slogan: “You can kill a horse but not a Cadillac”). The artist extracts organic materials and mass-produced artifacts from varied historical contexts in order to integrate and symbolically equalize them in synergistic, skillfully crafted sculptural forms.

"The automobile is a mystic vessel. A physical manifestation of the American dream, beauty and subsequent violence inherent in commodity fetishism. These sculptures are the outcome of collaboration with artifacts left in the wake of such human activity. Extracted from the landscape, relics of our desires are now positioned, encapsulated and preserved within fabricated structures. Sculptural finishes of exacting nature lure us in while vibrations occur between the abject raw textures of dust, dirt, rust, and decay presented by the relics." - Benjamin Kelley