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Warren Keating
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University: Otis Art Institue
Graduation Year: 1989
New Blood Art Statement
A passionate spectator, Warren Keating participates and refreshes a centuries’ old discourse on modernity and the metropolis by twisting surveillance into flânerie.
Baudelaire spoke of the “immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite…to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world - impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define.” But Susan Sontag was more measured, noting both the sense in which the flâneur/photographer is an “armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering”, and the double taint-virtue of being a “connoisseur of empathy”.
Keating explores the borderline between a cold, disengaged surveying eye or camera and the moment when the spectacle is flooded with passion, and a languid, absorbed tenderness for a stranger is born.
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Artist Statement
My latest works are the result of collecting photographs and video of unwitting subjects from balconies in France, digitizing them on a computer and painting them on canvas. This series brings together many elements that artists have explored throughout the 20th Century: abstract naturalism, expressive realism, narrative painting, photography and video. In each work, I expressively paint organic shapes of foreshortened figures forming dynamic relationships with the patterns and walkways of their urban environments. Opposing elements of photography and abstraction somehow come together in this blending of 20th century painting ideas; abstraction, expression and narration with 21st Century technology; digitized video, satellite surveillance and internet voyeurism.I use Expressionistic mark-making to depict walking subjects, stop-action, capturing them mid-step in thick paint that renders motion in the form of video scan lines and pixel artifacts. I have painstakingly selected the exact frame, from hundreds, that tells us the story of each character, and rendered the digital nature of each image in a painterly style depicting a privileged view of a private moment.
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Solo Exhibitions
2008 Overview, M.J. Higgins Fine Art, Los Angeles, United States
2003 Private Eye’s View, Ventura College Gallery, Ventura, United States
1999 Sobre Huatulco, La Secretería del Gobernador, Oaxaca, Mexico
1998 Sobre Huatulco, Sheraton Resorts, Mexico
1995 Industrial Waist, Desmond Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 California Open, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2011 Affordable Art Fair, Zatista Gallery, New York, United States
2011 Out There, Gallery 825, West Hollywood, United States
2009 VAST 41st Annual Visual Arts Society Of Texas, Dallas, United States
2009 Superheroes, JoAnne Artman Gallery, Laguna Beach, United States
2008 4th Annual Landscape Show, M.J. Higgins, Los Angeles, United States
2008 Human Figure Exhibition, Long Beach, CA, United States
2007 Global Warming, Orange County Center of Contemporary Art, United States
2007 Group Show, M.J. Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
2006 My Eyes — Noted Artists, Chase Mitchell Gallery, United States
2004 Secreto Mejor Guardado, Galerías Huatulco, Huatulco, Mexico
1996 Temecula Art Gallery, group show, United States
1995 Group Show, LA Art/Installations One Gallery, Encino, United States
1994 Rediscovered, Northlight Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Competitions, Prizes, Awards and Honors
2011 Honorable Mention Californa Open, TAG, Los Angeles
2009 Grumbacher Award, 41st Visual Arts Society of Texas Juried Exhibition, Dallas
2008 2nd Award, Human Figure Exhibition, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach
1994 1st Place Rediscovered Juried Exhibition, North Light Gallery, Los Angeles
20010-present Member, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles
Commissions
2012 Wagner Portrait, Kellie Hardick, Los Angeles
2011 Omaha Skyline, Father Gerald Melchior, Omaha
2010 Encino Elementary Library Mural, LAUSD, Los Angeles
2000 Train Mural, Actor Thomas Calabro, Los Angeles
1999 Sentinel Node Brochure, John Wayne Cancer Society, Los Angeles
1997 Sobre Huatulco, Sheraton Resorts, inc. International