Photographs by Kim Keever
ARTmostfierce recommends checking this show out. The photographs are brilliant and so it is creative process. They posess great painterly quality. And if any photographs justify its size, Kim Keever photographs are the right ones!
Don't miss it!
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KIM KEEVER
PHOTOGRAPHS
OCTOBER 30, 2008 - JANUARY 3, 2009
PLEASE JOIN US AT A PREVIEW RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
KIM KEEVER's large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water. These dioramas of fictitious environments are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera.
Keever's painterly panoramas represent a continuation of the landscape tradition, as well as an evolution of the genre. Referencing a broad history of landscape painting, especially that of Romanticism, the Hudson River School and Luminism, they are imbued with a sense of the sublime. However, they also show a subversive side that deliberately acknowledges their contemporary contrivance and conceptual artifice. Keever's staged scenery is characterized by a psychology of timelessness. A combination of the real and the imaginary, they document places that somehow we know, but never were. The symbolic qualities he achieves result from his understanding of the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, Keever fabricates an illusion to conjure the realms of our imagination.
Kim Keever lives in New York City, and has exhibited extensively in galleries throughout the United States and abroad.
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529 W. 20TH STREET, 11TH FL. NEW YORK, NY 10011
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I just came back from this show, and I was blown away. I wanted to live in those photographs. This is a DON'T MISS show. Thumbnails on a computer screen cannot do them justice.
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