Zachary Keeting
Primary Medium: Paint
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.
Much of what I do can be classified as abstraction, but it's an abstraction replete with impurity. The scraps of vocabulary (this elbow, that knee) mutating from image to image are depictions of what I need. The surfaces, sometimes scraped, sometimes poured, are a tactile skin.
The scenes are a mash-up of orchestrated mayhem. I fight against boundaries and obsess over edges. Direct gestures and oblique techniques intertwine. If I rely too heavily on successful methods I start feeling like a fraud. The point is to not be repetitive.
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.
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.
Much of what I do can be classified as abstraction, but it's an abstraction replete with impurity. The scraps of vocabulary (this elbow, that knee) mutating from image to image are depictions of what I need. The surfaces, sometimes scraped, sometimes poured, are a tactile skin.
The scenes are a mash-up of orchestrated mayhem. I fight against boundaries and obsess over edges. Direct gestures and oblique techniques intertwine. If I rely too heavily on successful methods I start feeling like a fraud. The point is to not be repetitive.
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
|  August (1) - 2009 - Acrylic on Paper - 30" x 22" - $600.00  August (2) - 2009 - Acrylic on Paper - 30" x 22" - $600.00  October (10) - 2009 - Acrylic on Paper - 11" x 15" - $300.00 |
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
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2006 - 2009 Educational Center for the Arts, Painting Instructor;
New Haven, CT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Carroll and Sons, Boston Drawing Project Exhibit; Boston, MA
ArtSpace Hartford, Group Exhibition – Maniac; Hartford, CT
Artspace, Solo Exhibit – Fussing and Fighting; New Haven, CT
Pilot Pen Invitational, Group Exhibition; New Haven, CT
2008 Lawn Club, Solo Exhibit – Recent Paintings; New Haven, CT
2007 Spring Arts Collective, Group Exhibition; Los Angeles, CA
Studio 70, Group Exhibition; New Haven, CT
2006 Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Solo Exhibit - Ricochet; Ottawa, ON
Temporary, Group Exhibition; Dusseldorf, Germany
2005 Apartment, Solo Exhibit – Transparent Radiation; Pittsburgh, PA
2004 Evos, Group Exhibition; Lowell, MA
2002 Cambridge Art Association, Group Exhibition; Cambridge, MA
Visual Research Gallery, Group Exhibition; New Haven, CT
2001 Hampden Gallery, Group Exhibition; Amherst, MA
1998 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Boston University; Boston, MA
1995 BFA Exhibition, Alfred University; Alfred, NY
RESIDENCIES
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
2009 Rojo Magazine
2008 Studio Visit Magazine