Warren Keating

Bicycling in Blue, Oil Painting

2022

Artist Comments
A lone bicyclist tours around a cool spring morning in artist Warren Keating's contemporary figurative painting. He captures the rider on video and uses that reference image, painting him alla prima in his signature style. The resultant expressive images communicate the atmosphere and motion of the subject in Santa Fe from his unusual perspective. "I hope my expressive painting helps you to rediscover the beauty and poetry of the mundane every day," says Warren.

About the Artist
Warren Keating's paintings start with documentation. He captures subjects on video from birds-eye views, digitizes the film on his computer and, finally, paints them on canvas in an active style he describes as Pixel Impressionism. He merges artistic elements of the 20th Century with 21st Century technology. Warren credits Futurism as well as Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning as influences in his paintings. Fun fact: Warren’s inspiration for this series came from a vacation to Paris where he photographed passersby from his hotel balcony in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Words that describe this painting: expressive, aerial perspective, pixelated, pixel impressionism, contemporary, figurative, motion, video, movement, texture, moment, everyday, bicycle, cycling, riding, cyclist, hat, summer, trail, sport, people, oilpaint, panoramic, people, sports, contemporary, oil painting, blue

Bicycling in Blue
Warren Keating
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2022
12 in. h x 36 in. w x 1.5 in. d
6 lbs. 0 oz.