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.
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 |
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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 |
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Galerie Marguo, ‘Art Paris 2023’, Paris, France |
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Cob Gallery, ‘Night light’, London, UK |
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2022 |
Scroll / The Hole, ‘The Midnight Hour’, New York, NY |
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Blum & Poe, ‘When the Sun Loses Its Light’, Los Angeles, LA |
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Tif Sigfrids, ‘Speed to Roam’, Athens, GA |
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2021 |
LAUNCH F18, ‘Stonebreakers’, New York, NY |
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March, ‘Pre- Renovation’, New York, NY |
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Reyes Finn, ‘The Language of Flowers’ curated by Phillip March Jones, Detroit, MI |
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Fortnight Institute, ‘The Lonely Ones’, New York, NY |
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2020 |
The Painting Center, ‘The Blues’, New York, NY |
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Auxier Kline, ‘Lean Out the Window,’, New York, NY | |||
2019 |
Ablebaker Contemporary, ‘The Missing Half-Second’, Portland, ME |
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2015 |
New York Studio School, ‘Living Threads’, New York, NY |
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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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Claudia Keep9:16 PM, Glass of Water at Bernie's, 2023Oil on masonite panel25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in)
27.6 x 22.5 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepDriving Home from Canada, 2023Oil on masonite panel30.5 x 40.6 cm (12 x 16 in)
32.7 x 42.9 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepChrysler Building At Sunset, 2022Oil on masonite panel25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in)
27.6 x 22.5 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepLate Afternoon Light Through The Trees, 2022Oil on masonite panel30.5 x 25.4 cm (12 x 10 in)
32.5 x 27.5 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepPink Half-Moon Over Newark, 2022Oil on masonite panel25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in)
27.6 x 22.5 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepStriped Sheets, 2022Oil on masonite panel25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in)
27.6 x 22.5 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepSun Through the Clouds, 2022Oil on masonite panel30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 in)
32.5 x 25 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepSunrise From The Forest Ave Stop, 2022Oil on masonite panel25.4 x 30.5 cm (10 x 12 in)
27.5 x 32.5 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepSympathetic Character, 2022Oil on masonite panel20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in)
22.5 x 27.6 cm (framed) -
Claudia KeepWhite Clover, 2022Oil on Masonite panel20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in)
22.5 x 27.6 (framed) -
Claudia KeepWinter Morning, 2022Oil on masonite panel25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in)
27.6 x 22.5 cm (framed)
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Frieze: Joseph Lee’s Top 5 Picks from Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room 2024
Frieze , 22 Feb 2024 -
The Cut: Women Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles
Evan Nicole Brown, The Cut, 21 Feb 2024 -
The Paris Review: Young, Slender, Blond, Blue-Eyed
Édouard Louis, The Paris Review, 22 Jan 2024 -
Whitewall: In Aubade, Claudia Keep Captures What it Feels to Exist
Andrew Huff, Whitewall, 9 Jan 2024 -
Artillery: Gallery Rounds: Claudia Keep
Sebastian Zinn , Artillery, 20 Dec 2023 -
Harper's Magazine: Trapdoor Where the past overtakes you
Kathleen Alcott, Harper's Magazine, 1 Dec 2023 -
FAD: Claudia Keep Talks To Phillip Edward Spradley
Phillip Edward Spradley, FAD Magazine, 31 Aug 2023