Claudia Keep

Overview

Portrait of the artist in her studio. Photo: Arion Doerr. Courtesy of the artist.

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 at Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN, and Night Moves at 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.

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Biography

Late Afternoon Light Through The Trees, 2022 (detail).

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, ‘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