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Kathleen Keifer
Kentucky Horse Rider

2017

About the Item

Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her hyperrealistic painted excerpts of popular board games with a keen eye on a clever composition and vivid colors. 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 30 inch tall by30 inch wide original artwork is a photorealistic composition created with acrylic paint on canvas. It is wired and ready to hang. The sides are painted black and it does not require framing. It signed by the artist on the front of the artwork. Free 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 EDUCATION AND HONORS B.F.A. University of Notre Dame B.A. St. Mary ’s College Advanced Workshops Tony Fitzpatrick and Roderick Guthrie Award Winning member of the Malibu Art Club Painting Patron of the California Art Club EXHIBITIONS 2022 “The Comforting Familiar”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2020 “Midnight Blue”, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Morris Inn, Notre Dame, IN 2018 Malibu Beach House, Malibu, CA 2018 Bon Voyage, Coda Gallery, Palm Desert, CA 2018 Solo Exhibition, Jeffrey Breslow Gallery, Chicago, IL 2018 Art Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, CA 2018 Artspace Warehouse, CA 2017 Affordable Art Fair New York, NY 2017 Affordable Art Fair London, UK 2017 Art Palm Springs, CA 2016 Along the PCH, Susan Schomburg gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2016 Jazz in the Pines, Idyllwild, CA 2015 Official artist of Chitag, Chicago Toy and Game Fair, Chicago, Il 2015 Jazz! Dion Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA 2015 Art 90266, LA 25, Manhattan Beach, CA 2015 Political Commentary, Linus gallery, Long Beach and Pasadena, CA 2014 RETROspective, Coast Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2014 ArtHampton, Bridgehampton, NY 2014 The Pursuit of…, Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014 Art 90266, LA 25, Manhattan Beach, CA 2013 Pop meets Painterly, CODA Gallery, Palm Desert, CA 2013 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 2013 Puzzles and Games, Liss Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2012 Art, Wine & Roses, Home Gallery, Malibu, CA 2012 Pop Meets Painterly, Oh My Godard Gallery, Atlantic City, NJ 2011 Beach Games, Riley Arts Gallery, Manhattan Beach, CA 2011 Art of The Game, Oh My Godard Gallery, Atlantic City NJ 2011 Art of The Game, Liss Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2010 Art of The Game, Gallery 319, Santa Monica, CA 2010 One Woman Show, Canfin Gallery, Westchester, NY 2009 American Riviera, ARTfront Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 American Landscape, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2008 Coastal Living, Gallery 319 Santa Monica, CA 2007 On the Beach, Gallery 319 Santa Monica, CA 2007 Why We Live Here, Dion Gallery, Redondo Beach, CA 2006 Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu. CA 2006 BOOK: Perspective on Coastal Beauty, From Malibu to Manhattan Beach 2005 Along the PCH, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2005 FRESH!, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Gallery C, Hermosa Beach,CA 2005 California Visions, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 2004 President’s Show, CA Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA 2004 Coastal Nostalgia, 2004, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2004 Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA 2003 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2003 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 2001 Ambient Light, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2000 The Coastal Landscape, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 2000 Malibu Artists Juried Show, Weisman Museum, Malibu, CA 2000 Montecito Art & Frame, Montecito, CA 1999 Interpreting Beauty, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 1999 Artists of Malibu, Weisman Museum, Malibu, CA 1998 Changing Seasons, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA 1998 Celebrating Color, Mc Lean Gallery, Malibu, CA PRIVATE COLLECTIONS C. Broccoli James Cameron Shelley Fabares Ed Harris Florence Henderson Phil Jackson Barry Manilow Kevin Nealon Jack Nicholson Sharon Stone Britney Spears Betty Thomas Selected Public Collections Bank of America The Beach Club Citigroup Hilton Hotels Morgan Stanley Pepperdine University Random House Sidley Austin Citigroup University of Notre Dame United States Historical Society Walt Disney Studios About the gallery: Artspace Warehouse is one of the world's leading galleries for savvy contemporary art collectors. With galleries in Zurich (Switzerland Kunstwarenhaus Est. 2000) and Los Angeles (USA Est. 2010), Artspace Warehouse specializes in affordable international urban, pop, figurative and abstract art from the hottest emerging and mid-career artists.
  • Creator:
    Kathleen Keifer (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2017
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: ARTSPACE WAREHOUSE_KEIFER_KENTUCKY HORSE RIDER1stDibs: LU4261802763
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