Mike Kelley Author

The artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) worked with performance, installation, drawing and painting, video, sound, and sculpture. Drawing from historical research, mass cultural sources, psychological theory and Sex to Sexty, his artworks reference both high art and vernacular traditions. Cameron Jamie, born in 1969, is an American visual artist who has exhibited throughout the U.S. and widely in Europe. His artwork addressing the theme of wrestling has appeared in numerous bodies of work. Jamie is also an expert on the subject of North American professional wrestling and apartment wrestling. Theo Ehret (1920–2012) was the house photographer at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. His evocative work captured the enormous wrestling personalities of that era—Muhammad Ali and André the Giant, George Foreman and Roberto Durán, among others—and also the sport’s sub-genre known as “apartment wrestling”.