Jerald Melberg Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Kim Keever’s boldly colored, abstract images. Keever photographically captures colliding, billowing colors into a soft yet explosive choreography, creating imagery as beautiful as it is technical.
Trained as an engineer, Keever uses precision and innovation to compose his photographs, utilizing a strategic dispersal of specially prepared pigments into a 200-gallon aquatic tank, creating dynamic, random movement confined within the glass walls.
After photographing through the glass, Keever crops the images to achieve the desired compositions. In this process dualities emerge: the images exist in a space between chance and control, between explosiveness and grace.
This is the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery.
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Underwater Canvas
Kim Keever -
The Tank
Inside Kim's studio"I mix colors, put them in bottles, and then squeeze the paint into the water. It's a 200 gallon tank, lit on the sides. The camera is in front of the tank and I am standing behind it. I fire the camera remotely, that's the basis of what happens."
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ABSTRACT 47559 & ABSTRACT 46854
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ABSTRACT 5541b 2013
"I've shot 52,000 images over a period of 6 years. I'm always looking for something I haven't seen before. Something that has some kind of magic. Whether its color, form, technique, that sort of thing."
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"The work has to strike my subconsicous. I spend a lot of time looking over the images on my computer and on my phone, searching for the perfect crop."
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ABSTRACT 21871
Recently on view at The Aldrich Museum -
Kim Keever at The Aldrich Museum
Weather Report exhibition, October 2019 - August 2020Before he made art Kim Keever worked as a NASA researcher studying the high-speed behavior of air through jet engines and past moving bodies such as missiles. Turning his back on science, he moved to New York City in 1980 to pursue a career in art, first making paintings that relate to geological processes.
- The Aldrich Museum, Essay for Weather Report exhibition, August 2020 -
Underwater Canvas
Kim KeeverOn view at Jerald Melberg Gallery September 26 - November 7, 2020.
Please contact us at gallery@jeraldmelberg.com with all inquiries.
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Exhibition Works
On view September 26-November 7, 2020 -
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Kim Keever and Jerald Melberg
Artist Interview
