Kim Keever: Random Events

KIM KEEVER

ABSTRACTS

KIM KEEVER ABSTRACTS a t Wa t e r h o u s e & D o d d

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Abstract 9353b, 2015 28 x 42 in / 71 X 108 cm 44 x 68 in / 112 X 173 cm Right 2. Abstract 1949b, 2015 36 x 28 in / 92 X 71 cm 58 x 44 in / 147 X 112 cm

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KIM KEEVER “I’ve always lived near the water, whether it was the

Kim Keever graduated in Thermal Engineering from Old Dominion Uni-

Eastern Shore of Virginia, Chicago or New York City. There’s a

versity, Norfolk, VA and was briefly a thermal engineer working primarily

peaceful attraction to the flat rippling surface and the myster-

on NASA projects. Keever changed career in the late 1970s to become a

ies below.

full-time artist, yet he has always drawn on his original vocation by retaining

It took me about two years of imagining what it would look

a scientific and innovative process in his artistic work.

like to totally simplify my working process. When I finally tried

Keever’s first used a water tank to create landscapes, which at first glance

just dropping paint into water and photographing the results

are redolent of the Hudson River School and the German Romantic paint-

through a 200 gallon aquarium wall, to my amazement, the

ers. In fact they are detailed scenes that he built himself by placing objects in

paint dispersed in so many interesting ways. I had to continue.

a 200-gallon tank. He then dropped a small amount of paint, initially just to

Timing of the shots is crucial and short-lived, as the process

create the impression of clouds. He became increasingly interested in the

of releasing the dyes and pigments quickly transforms into a

random nature of the addition of paint and in 2013 abandoned landscapes

random event It is a very freeing process. I can explore color

to concentrate solely on abstract images.

and form like never before. The forms in the work coalesce, break apart and wither as other paint clouds form.

Kim Keever lives and works in New York City. His work is in numerous important public and private collections, including the Metropolitan

Even after 20,000 shots I can’t predict which will be com-

Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York and the

pletely successful and only a fraction are printed. But I have

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn. ( A full list of museum representation

accepted the lack of control and embrace the randomness.

is included on the last page).

I like the combination of mechanical process, happy accidents, and my eye to create the works you see.”

- Kim Keever, 2015

Waterhouse & Dodd has represented Kim Keever since 2013. In addition to hosting a highly successful solo show of his work in New York, the gallery has exhibited his Abstracts in London and at art fairs throughout the United States and in Europe. The gallery has placed his work in many collections in the United States and also in South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

Excerpt from The New York Times article “ With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word” by Jon Pareles, 2015 “Ms. Newsom and I visited the Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for a close view of photographs by Kim Keever, whose artwork accompanies “Divers”: it’s also at the center for the coming video clip for the album’s title song. One photo at the gallery akin to the album cover, looked like a rocky, uninhabited landscape below luminous multicolored clouds.

“I like that it’s not clear whether they represent a period of time before humans, or a period of time after humans, the post-apocalyptic thing or whether they represent just a part of the world where there are no humans, or whether they represent an iteration of Earth within the multiverse where humans never evolved to exist,” Ms. Newsom said. “And I like that the landscapes are viewed from a great distance in most cases, which is an image that comes up for me a lot in these songs, viewing things from above, speeding over landscapes.”

“His work is about time in a lot of ways,” Ms. Newsom observed. “He’s depicting these concrete landscapes, scenes we associate with permanence. They’re rock-solid and massive and much bigger than us. But they’re also these works that start disintegrating instantly – they’re so time-sensitive and time-dependent.”

Top 3. Abstract 19281, 2015 32 x 28 in / 81 x 71 cm 50 x 44 in / 127 x 112 cm Bottom 4. Abstract 17551, 2015 33 x 28 in / 84 x 71 cm 58 x 48 in / 147 x 122 cm

CATALOGUE All works come in two sizes, in seperate editions of five and two Artist’s Proofs.

Sizes include an approximate 2-inch white border.

Works can be purchased framed and unframed. Framed works are mounted on archival board and framed in a white shadow box.

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Abstract 9848c, 2015 28 x 36 in / 71 x 91 cm 50 x 65 in / 112 x 145 cm

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Abstract 15101c, 2015 24 x 31 in / 61 x 79 cm 33 x 44 in / 84 x 112 cm

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Abstract 19432, 2015 24 x 36 in / 61 x 91 cm 44 x 57 in / 112 x 145 cm

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Abstract 13335, 2015 24 x 32 in / 61 x 81 cm 44 x 60 in / 112 x 152 cm

Previous spread: 9. Abstract 14554, 2015 25 x 24 in / 64 x 61 cm 50 x 48 in / 127 x 122 cm 10.

Abstract 15443, 2015 23 x 24 in / 58 x 61 cm 46 x 48 in / 117 x 122 cm

Right: 11. Abstract 19014, 2015 28 x 37 in / 71 x 94 cm 50 x 67 in / 127 x 170 cm

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Abstract 19200, 2015 28 x 36 in / 71 x 91 cm 44 x 57 in / 112 x 145 cm

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Abstract 15439, 2015 24 x 33 in / 61 x 84 cm 34 x 46 in / 86 x 117 cm

Top Left 14. Abstract 14614, 2015 24 x 27 in / 61 x 69 cm 44 x 50 in / 112 x 127 cm Bottom Left 15. Abstract 13837c, 2015 28 x 42 in / 71 x 107 cm 50 x 76 / 127 x 193 cm Right 16. Abstract 14032, 2015 33 x 28 in / 84 x 71 cm 40 x 33 in / 102 x 84 cm

17. Abstract 18798, 2015 28 x 39 in / 71 x 99 cm 50 x 72 in / 127 x 183 cm

KIM KEEVER

American born 1955

Education

BS in Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Public Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY Patterson Museum, Patterson, NJ George Washington University Gallery, Washington, DC Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL Solo Exhibitions 2015 Random Events, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Abstracts, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, New York, NY KinzTillou Fine Art, New York, NY 2012 Tillou Gallery, Litchfield, CT Underwater-Scapes, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 2011 Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA David B Smith Gallery, Denver, CO 2010 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC 2008 Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York, NY Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York, NY 2006 Kim Keever, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005

Suspended States, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY 2004 All I Ever Knew, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO 2003 New Work, Cornell Dewitt Gallery, New York, NY 2002 A Raining Day, Fotogalerie Wein, Vienna, Austria Photographs, Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, IL 2001 De Chiara/Stewart, New York, NY 1999 De Chiara/Stewart, New York, NY Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, IL 1997 Art Space, Raleigh, NC 1992 Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 “Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape”, University of Richmond Museum, VA The Road to Elysium”, Heist Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2014 “Winter Show”, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, NYC 2013 “Land & Sea”, curated by Tim Strazza, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, NYC “The Land Before & After Time”, Acola Griefen Gallery, NYC “Six Artists, curated by Jacquie Littlejohn, Littlejohn Contemporary, NYC 2012 “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions...”, Museum of Tourcoing, Lille, France “Beyond Bling”, curated by Claire Oliver, Clare Oliver Gallery, NYC “The Perfect Storm”, curated by Edna Cardinale, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC “Earthly Delights”, curated by Katharine Mulherin, Mulherin + Pollard, NYC “Bling”, curated by Dru Arstark, Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC 2011 “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Reali-

ties”, curated by David McFadden, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC “American Chambers: Post 90s American Art ”, curated by Inhee Iris Moon, Gyeong Nam Museum of Art, Chawon, South Korea “Indexing the World: invention, abstraction and disonance”, curated by Andrew Young,The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2010 “The Garden,” McNeil Art Group Project Space, NYC 2009 “As we Live and Breathe”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL “The Landscape Reimagined: Photographs by Kim Keever”, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA “Trouble in Paradise”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ 2008 “The Sublime Landscape”, Project 4, Washington, DC “Gallery Stable”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago Ill. “10th Anniversary Exhbition”, Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC 2007 “Kim Keever and Peter Drake”, curated by Mark Strathy, CCSU, New Britain, CT 2006 “The Contemporary Landscape”, Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art, San Francisco, CA “Hedonistic Imperative”, curated by Graham Guerra, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX 2005 “Beautiful Dreamer”, curated by David Gibson, Spaces, Cleveland, OH “Everland”, curated by David Gibson, Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC 2004 “Multiplicity”, Fota House, Fota Island, Ireland “Second Nature”, curated by Linda Dennis, Fish Tank Gallery, NYC 2003 “Nature Photography”, curated by Jay Grimm, JG Contemporary, NYC 2003 “Supranatural”, Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC Mixed Greens at Space 201, Brooklyn, NY

Left 18. Abstract 14472, 2015 24 x 29 in / 61 x 74 cm 41 x 50 in / 104 x 127 cm

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