In his first post-MFA solo exhibition, artist Benjamin Kelley approaches America’s industrial history through a series of works that lays bare the darker aspects of the country’s domestic production. Riches and Ruin includes four sculptures and a found photograph Kelley reproduced from a negative. The photo, which depicts a well-dressed man next to ambiguous mechanical artifacts, hangs on a back wall, a backdrop for the spread of sculptures. The cleanly framed, somehow ominous photograph helps to set the tone for the exhibition.
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