Mike Kelley produced some of the most influential art of the late 20th Century, developing radical content and hybrid forms across a range of artistic mediums. Kelley’s art draws from elements of his teenage years in Detroit in the late 1960s—the politics of hippies and feminists, Catholicism, rock and roll, and underground comics—and later, while a student at the University of Michigan in the early 1970s, from the local music scene of poet Jon Sinclair of the MC-5s, and Iggy Pop. To these cultural influences was added the conceptually oriented training he encountered after relocating to Southern California in 1976 to study at the California Institute of the Arts. The resulting amalgam is a distinctive body of work appropriated from high and low American culture—at once subjective, intellectual, poetic, funny, and highly transgressive. Satan’s Nostrils forms part of series titled ‘Pansy Metal/Clovered Hoof’ which comprised of 10 works.