Adrian Kellard at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art | MO

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By Tahlib

Lovers by Adrian Kellard, carved painted wood

MISSOURI - As part of a moving Lenton season exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in St. Louis, MO featured Adrian Kellard's Lovers (above) as part of this season's closing exhibition, Good Friday: The Suffering Christ in Contemporary Art. The late artist(1959-1991) died from AIDS in New York City in 1991. The wood-cut print Lovers explores being a "gay man loved by god" in two eccentrically and emotionally wrought works that move between the traditionally liturgical and explicitly kitsch in a delicate manner. The work was on view through Easter weekend.