KEN GRIMES: ALONE? : NADA HOUSE 2021

NADA House will be open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, 11am–5pm, beginning on May 8th.

This event is free to the public.

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Ken Grimes was born in New York City in 1947 and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. For more than 40 years, he has diligently maintained a stark palette of black and white, which he believes is the most direct way of showing the contrast between truth and deception. Only recently, he ventured into a new series of works that incorporate basic colors to the same end. The artist’s paintings and works on paper, which oscillate between whimsical and stern—but are often both—are conceptual, never-ending variations on the themes of extraterrestrial intelligence and cosmic coincidence; a window to a world where aliens, flying saucers, UFOs, crop circles, radio telescopes and interstellar signals are an essential part of reality. Grimes’s artistic project strives to prompt viewers into thinking about the existence of aliens and the importance of making contact with them.

The artist's work is in the permanent collections of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the American Folk Art Museum. In 2018, his work was selected as one of the exhibitions in a six-part yearly series titled “Field Station” at Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. In 2019, he was invited to participate in the deCordova Museum Biennial. Anthology Editions is currently in the process of developing a volume on Grimes's life and work.

Portrait Series, 2018. Ink on paper. 24 x 18 in.| $3,000 ea.

Binary Code Series, 2019. Ink on paper. 12 1/4 x 9 in.| $2,200 ea.

 

Portrait Series, 2021. Acrylic on canvas. 16 x 12 in.| $2,800 ea.