Overview

Working from both life and personal photographs, Keep illuminates the intricacies of simple scenes: light falling in a quiet room, the shapes that a modest object casts onto the sidewalk, infinite beads of water resting in a spiderweb.

Claudia Keep’s (b. 1993) paintings reveal the intimate complexity of quotidian moments. Composed of soft lines and shapes, they convey impressions of the ordinary that are curiously lucid. Working from both life and personal photographs, Keep illuminates the intricacies of simple scenes: light falling in a quiet room, the shapes that a modest object casts onto the sidewalk, infinite beads of water resting in a spiderweb. This record of detail rescues the humblest of beauty from invisibility, by its nature an invitation to look more closely.

 

Claudia Keep was born in Low Moor, Virginia (1993) and is currently based in Burlington, Vermont. She received her BFA from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

 

Her recent solo exhibitions include Day In, Day Out at Tif Sigfrids, Athens, Georgia; Claudia Keep, Tops Gallery, Memphis; TN, and Night Moves, MARCH. Keep has also exhibited at Blum & Poe (Los Angeles, CA), Venus Over Manhattan (New York, NY), Fortnight Institute (New York, NY), The Painting Center (New York, NY), Auxier Kline (New York, NY), and Ablebaker Contemporary (Portland, ME). She has been represented by MARCH since 2020.  

Biography

Born in 1993 in Low Moor, Virginia, United States

Lives and works in Burlington, Vermont, US

 

Education

 

2015

Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, BA 

 

Solo Exhibitions
 

2022

 March, ‘Aubade’, New York, NY

 

 Tif Sigfrids, ‘Day In, Day Out’, Athens, GA

2021  Tops Gallery, ‘Claudia Keep’, Memphis, TN
   March, ‘Night Moves’, New York, NY
2019  Galerie Ulysses, ‘John’s Friends’, Vienna, Austria
   UK Medical Center Gallery, ‘Day in Maine’, Lexington, KY

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2023

Galerie Marguo, 'ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair', Shanghai, China

 

 Galerie Marguo, ‘Art Paris 2023’, Paris, France

 

 Cob Gallery, ‘Night light’, London, UK

2022

 Scroll / The Hole, ‘The Midnight Hour’, New York, NY

 

 Blum & Poe, ‘When the Sun Loses Its Light’, Los Angeles, LA

  

 Tif Sigfrids, ‘Speed to Roam’, Athens, GA

2021

 LAUNCH F18, ‘Stonebreakers’, New York, NY

 

 March, ‘Pre- Renovation’, New York, NY

 

 Reyes Finn, ‘The Language of Flowers’ curated by Phillip March   Jones, Detroit, MI

 

 Fortnight Institute, ‘The Lonely Ones’, New York, NY

2020

 The Painting Center, ‘The Blues’, New York, NY

   Auxier Kline, ‘Lean Out the Window,’, New York, NY
2019

 Ablebaker Contemporary, ‘The Missing Half-Second’, Portland, ME

2015

 New York Studio School, ‘Living Threads’, New York, NY

2014

 The Painting Center, ‘20th Anniversary Exhibition’, New York, NY

   

 

Collections

 

Fidelity Investments Collection, USA

 

Progressive Collection, USA

University of Kentucky, USA

 

 

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