KEN GRIMES AND THE STARS: WHO’S OUT THERE?

THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE WORK AND IDEAS OF AN ARTIST WHO HAS LONG BEEN FASCINATED BY OUTER SPACE AND THE POSSIBILTY OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

by Edward M. Gómez

The front cover and a page from *Evidence for Contact: Ken Grimes*, a new, well-illustrated volume containing reproductions of many of the artist’s most emblematic images. It has just been published by Anthology Editions, in collaboration with Ricco/Maresca, New York.

Nowadays, the world — or, more precisely, the often overlapping worlds of science, the media, the political establishment, and educational institutions — is catching up with Ken Grimes, a self-taught artist who was born in 1947 and who, from the modest mission control of his home/studio in Connecticut, has used his art to emphatically proclaim: Alien life forms are out there, and if you’ve been paying close attention, you might have noticed that they’re already here, too (or at least that they’ve come calling on their own fact-finding expeditions).