Kathleen Keifer
Cosmo
2018

Name: Cosmo
Brand: Kathleen Keifer
Price: 400 USD
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Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity Keifer creates a new sense of reality with textures and colors that seem to add lighting effects and distinct shadows, confronting the viewer with new interpretations of familiar objects. This one-of-a-kind 12 inch original square artwork is a photorealistic composition created with acrylic paint on canvas. It is wired and ready to hang. The sides are painted as a continuation of the front and it does not require framing. It signed by the artist on the front of the artwork. Convenient local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental US and global shipping is available. A certificate of authenticity is included. Kathleen’s paintings invite the viewer to consider the complex relationship between time and timelessness. It is the sheer visual interaction between the elements, taken in their bare simplicity that interests her. For her, painting captures the very essence of time and its passage. She believes that actual sites and places have an individual magic. The goal is to take objects from popular culture and paint them in a new narrative context. Her complex approaches to popular board games present the subjects as living, tangible objects. Her interest took her to paint bits and pieces of board games. Her husband had been designing and inventing board games for thirty years, and her homes and studios are filled with games and playing pieces. She is fascinated with the response these board games (and bits and pieces) evoke in us as adults. Sure there's the tug of childhood and nostalgia, the innocence of playing a game with clear rules and clear winners. But somehow these board games live in an unconscious dream-realm where they represent something more than the detritus of playtime. All the while she is painting them in the context of living in Los Angeles, a cultural capital filled with pop art and pop culture. Born and raised in Chicago, Kathleen Keifer is a second-generation artist. Her mother, also a fine artist, exposed Keifer to the world of art and supervised her training from a very early age. This legacy continues today as Keifer closely nurtures the development of the artistic leaning in each of her three daughters, inspiring a third generation of female artists. Her works are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and have been exhibited and collected internationally, including Chicago, New York and London. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITIONS 2023 “Postcards From Nowhere”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2022 “The Comforting Familiar”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2020 “Midnight Blue”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Morris Inn, Notre Dame, IN Malibu Beach House, Malibu, CA Bon Voyage, Coda Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Solo Exhibition, Jeffrey Breslow Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, CA Artspace Warehouse, CA 2017 Affordable Art Fair New York, NY Affordable Art Fair London, UK Art Palm Springs, CA “Pop Futurism and Abstraction”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Susan Schomburg gallery, Santa Monica, CA Jazz in the Pines, Idyllwild, CA 2015 Official artist of Chitag, Chicago Toy and Game Fair, Chicago, Il Jazz! Dion Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA Art 90266, LA 25, Manhattan Beach, C Political Commentary, Linus gallery, Long Beach and Pasadena, CA 2014 RETROspective, Coast Gallery, Long Beach, CA ArtHampton, Bridgehampton, NY The Pursuit of…, Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art 90266, LA 25, Manhattan Beach, CA 2013 Pop meets Painterly, CODA Gallery, Palm Desert, CA University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Puzzles and Games, Liss Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2012 Art, Wine & Roses, Home Gallery, Malibu, CA Pop Meets Painterly, Oh My Godard Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ 2011 Beach | Games, Riley Arts Gallery, Manhattan Beach, CA Art of The Game, Oh My Godard Gallery, Atlantic City NJ Art of The Game, Liss Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2010 Art of The Game, Gallery 319, Santa Monica, CA One Woman Show, Canfin Gallery, Westchester, NY 2009 American Riviera, ARTfront Gallery, Los Angeles, CA American Landscape, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2008 Coastal Living, Gallery 319 Santa Monica, CA 2007 On the Beach, Gallery 319 Santa Monica, CA Why We Live Here, Dion Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA 2006 Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu. CA BOOK: Perspective on Coastal Beauty, From Malibu to Manhattan Beach 2005 Along the PCH, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA FRESH!, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA California Visions, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2004 President’s Show, CA Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA Coastal Nostalgia, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA 2003 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Coastal Nostalgia, 2003, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2002 Coastal Nostalgia, 2002, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2001 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Ambient Light, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2000 The Coastal Landscape, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA Malibu Artists Juried Show, Weisman Museum, Malibu, CA Montecito Art & Frame, Montecito, CA 1999 Interpreting Beauty, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA Artists of Malibu, Weisman Museum, Malibu, CA 1998 Changing Seasons, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA Celebrating Color, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA SELECT PRIVATE COLLECTIONS C. 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Creator:

Kathleen Keifer (American)

Creation Year:

2018

Dimensions:

Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Acrylic

Movement & Style:

Photorealist

Period:

21st Century

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Reference Number:

Seller: ARTSPACE WAREHOUSE_KEIFER_COSMO1stDibs: LU4262489671

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Kathleen Keifer is a California based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of New California Realism. With a high level of technical virtuosity, Keifer creates a new sense of reality with textures and colors that seem to add lighting effects and distinct shadows, confronting the viewer with new interpretations of familiar objects. Keifer’s paintings invite the viewer to consider the complex relationship between time and timelessness. It is the sheer visual interaction between the elements, taken in their bare simplicity that interests her. For her, the painting captures the very essence of time and its passage. She believes that actual sites and places have individual magic. The goal is to take objects from popular culture and paint them in a new narrative context. Her complex approaches to popular board games present the subjects as living, tangible objects. Keifer’s interest took her to paint bits and pieces of board games. Her husband had been designing and inventing board games for thirty years and her homes and studios are filled with games and playing pieces. She is fascinated with the response these board games (and bits and pieces) evoke in us as adults. Sure there's the tug of childhood and nostalgia, the innocence of playing a game with clear rules and clear winners. But somehow these board games live in an unconscious dream-realm where they represent something more than the detritus of playtime. All the while she is painting them in the context of living in Los Angeles, a cultural capital filled with pop art and pop culture. Born and raised in Chicago, Kathleen Keifer is a second-generation artist. Her mother, also a fine artist, exposed Keifer to the world of art and supervised her training from a very early age. This legacy continues today as Keifer closely nurtures the development of the artistic leaning in each of her three daughters, inspiring a third generation of female artists. Her works are represented by Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles and have been exhibited and collected internationally, including Chicago, New York and London.