Artist’s Reception: The Pearl Diver and Other Stories, an exhibition by Robert Kelly

Aging paper, layered, overlaid, ghosted with images and text; cut, covered, framed and highlighted by thick, sensuous black geometric forms. Through the yellowed layers, a strangely winged figure emerges. Around him, half-revealed, half-concealed by those black forms, strange shapes and unknowable words.

The Pearl Diver and Other Stories brings Santa Fe native, Robert Kelly, back to New Mexico with his first exhibition here since 2012