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Kim Keever

Kim Keever's painterly, panoramic photographs represent the evolution of landscape painting embodied by the Hudson River School, Luminism, and Romanticism. Artificially contrived by the artist, Keever meticulously constructs his dioramas in a 200-gallon water tank and then submerges them in water. Working quickly to capture the diffusion of pigments with a large-format camera, he makes photographic glimpses into a world that is both familiar and fantastic, awash in unnatural colors.

Born 1955
Hometown New York, NY
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
BS, Engineering, Old Domininon University, Norfolk, VA, 1976
Permanent Collection

Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Patterson Museum, Patterson, NJ
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
New England Museum for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT

Representing Galleries

Kinz, Tillou Fine Arts, New York, NY

Interview with the Artist

1. When did you first realize you wanted to be an artist?
In first grade I realized I could something better than the other kids...art.
2. Who is your favorite artist?
Roxy Paine.
3. What's your preferred drink?
Jack Daniels.
4. What's your hidden talent?
I compose music.
5. What's your favorite quote?
"It's not that you set your goals too high, it's that you set your goals too low and achieve them."—Michelangelo

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