Zachary Keeting
C W O S ARTIST
Erector Square bldg 2 floor 3 studio c
315 Peck Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Neighborhood : New Haven: Erector Square
Website: http://zacharykeeting.com/
Artist Statement
Here is the challenge: be brave, struggle to build a vivid document. Courageously push the materials to a surprising place, accept an art of rough approximation, of free-improvisation, where careful measurements may be entirely inappropriate. If successful, the paintings will make visual what is within.
What are these curves and corners: knees and hips, hills and ditches? Mutating shapes must be what I need.
Very often, the materials misbehave. What can I do with acrylic? It dies if left to its own devices. I wrestle for a tactile skin, for an exciting, unpredictable surface: poured scraped punched and shaken. Color, the most urgent ingredient, is compositional glue.
The scenes are a mash-up of orchestrated mayhem. I fight against boundaries and obsess over edges. Direct gestures and oblique techniques intertwine.
Improvisation is essential as I surrender to the pictures, to the paint, to my own nervous energy. This is an art of precision and abandon.
Selected Works
|  September (1) - 2011 - acrylic on canvas - 40 x 44  August (1) - 2011 - acrylic on canvas - 32 x 24  August (4) - 2011 - acrylic on canvas - 24 x 32  June (6) - 2011 - acrylic on canvas - 22 x 24  June (5) - 2011 - acrylic on canvas - 22 x 24  June (3) - 2011 - acrylic on canvas - 24 x 30  June (2) - 2011 - acrylic on canvas - 24 x 30 |
Artist Bio
EDUCATION
1998 MFA Boston University, Boston, MA
Studied with John Walker, John Moore, Alfred Leslie
1995 BFA Alfred University, Summa Cum Laude Alfred, NY
Studied with Mary Lum, Mario Prisco, William Contino
1990 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Saturday Program
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Mass Moca / Cabinet, Group Exhibit – An Exchange with Sol LeWitt; MA / NY
Artspace, Group Exhibit – Scrawl; New Haven, CT
Art/Place, Group Exhibit –The Guy Show; Fairfield, CT
2010 Fort Point Gallery, Group Exhibit – Gorky's Granddaughter; Boston, MA
Vaudeville Park, Group Exhibit – True Singing is a Different Breathing; Brooklyn, NY
Haskins Laboratory, Group Exhibit – Mind Sets; New Haven, CT
New Haven Theatre Co., Group Exhibit – Art Sync 1; New Haven, CT
2009 Carroll and Sons, Group Exhibit – Boston Drawing Project; Boston, MA
ArtSpace Hartford, Group Exhibit – Maniac; Hartford, CT
Artspace, Solo Exhibit – Fussing and Fighting; New Haven, CT
Pilot Pen Invitational, Group Exhibit; New Haven, CT
2008 Lawn Club, Solo Exhibit – Recent Paintings; New Haven, CT
2007 Spring Arts Collective, Group Exhibit; Los Angeles, CA
Studio 70, Group Exhibit; New Haven, CT
2006 Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Solo Exhibit – Ricochet; Ottawa, ON
Temporary, Group Exhibit; Düsseldorf, Germany
2005 Apartment, Solo Exhibit – Transparent Radiation; Pittsburgh, PA
2004 Evos, Group Exhibit; Lowell, MA
2002 Cambridge Art Association, Group Exhibit; Cambridge, MA
Visual Research Gallery, Group Exhibit; New Haven, CT
2001 Hampden Gallery, Group Exhibit; Amherst, MA
1998 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Boston University; Boston, MA
1995 BFA Exhibition, Alfred University; Alfred, NY
RESIDENCIES
2011 Artist-in-Residence, VCCA; Amherst, VA
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo; Saratoga Springs, NY
Artist-in-Residence, Petrified National Forest, AZ
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Byrdcliffe; Woodstock, NY
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Artspace; New Haven, CT
2006 Artist-in-Residence, Montana Artists Refuge; Basin, MT
2005 Artist-in-Residence, Santa Fe Art Institute; Santa Fe, NM
2001 Artist-in-Residence, Pouch Cove; Newfoundland, Canada
Artist-in-Residence, Millay Colony; Austerlitz, NY
2000 Artist-in-Residence, Woodstock School of Art; Woodstock, NY
AWARDS
2006 Amici Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Two Coats of Paint (May 5) review by Sharon Butler
2010 Time Out Boston (November 9) review by David Wildman
New Haven Independent (July 16) review by Stephen Kobasa
2009 Rojo Magazine
2008 Studio Visit Magazine
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011 Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Visiting Artist; Hartford, CT
2006 – 2011 Educational Center for the Arts, Painting Instructor; New Haven, CT