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'''Trek Thunder Kelly''' is an American artist based in  [[Venice, California]]. He achieved national recognition  with his performance-art candidacy in the [[California recall election, 2003|2003 gubernatorial recall election in California]]. Kelly wore only the color blue for the year preceding the vote, and championed his consistency during the campaign.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilentz |first1=Amy |title=I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger |date=22 August 2006 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4165-3805-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvOFqAvZ-bIC&dq=trek+thunder+kelly&pg=PA81 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="SFGATE">{{cite web |last1=April 13 |first1=Joe Garofoli on |title=CA Recall Flashback: Trek Thunder Kelly. Performance Artist. |url=https://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2013/04/13/ca-recall-flashback-trek-thunder-kelly-performance-artist/ |website=Politics Blog |date=13 April 2013}}</ref>  During the campaign, Kelly was a contestant on [[Game Show Network]]'s ''Who Wants to Be Governor of California'' show, and afterwards, he appeared in ''How Arnold Won the West'', a documentary about the election.<ref name="IOL">{{cite web |title=Who Wants To Be Governor Of California? |url=https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/world/who-wants-to-be-governor-of-california-113711 |website=www.iol.co.za |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=How Arnold Won the West |url=https://www.tvguide.com/movies/how-arnold-won-the-west/2000101310/ |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}}</ref>

In 2016 the Los Angeles Times profiled his five years of living in a van in Venice Beach.<ref name="LATVan">{{cite web |last1=Biagiotti |first1=Lisa |title=On the Streets: The art of homelessness |url=https://www.latimes.com/86035423-132.html |website=Los Angeles Times|date=March 2016 }}</ref>
Kelly's painting ''The Suicide of Frda Kahlo'' portrays Kahlo as androgynous.<ref name="Kahlo">{{cite book |last1=Estrada |first1=Oswaldo |title=Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation |date=11 July 2018 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-1-4384-7191-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9kFmDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22trek+thunder+kelly%22&pg=PA187 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Replicante |date=2007 |publisher=RGRV |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tL4mAQAAIAAJ&q=%22trek+thunder+kelly%22 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Frida Kahlo |url=https://catalogo.artium.eus/book/export/html/9694 |website=catalogo.artium.eus}}</ref>

Kelly was the host of a 30-part video series by Carnival Cruise lines titles ''GO''.<ref>{{cite web |title=These cruise lines are the special guest stars of travel TV shows |url=https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-travel-cruise-news-cruises-promote-using-tv-20190428-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=29 April 2019}}</ref>

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==External links==
*[http://www.trekkelly.com Kelly's official website]

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