Keith ThomsonSteel, Oil Painting2025
2025
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A ballerina balances en pointe on a rust-red steel girder suspended high above a pastel-hued cityscape. The image contrasts delicate grace with industrial strength, evoking the precarious beauty of human aspiration in a modern metropolis. Artist Keith Thomson used oil paint and ink to create the piece, inspired not by metaphor, but by the thrill of challenge. After all, anyone can pirouette in a theater. But sixty stories above Manhattan?Arist Keith Thomson used oil paint and ink to create this piece.
About the Artist
Alabama-based artist Keith Thomson creates quick-witted, mixed-media artwork that blends realism and surrealism. His background as a political cartoonist in the 90s is reflected in the sharp storytelling his artwork achieves. He combines stylized realism and everyday subject matter with surreal details and ironic twists. He begins his work as digital sketches using animation software, then he transfers the sketch onto the canvas and begins applying oil paint. In addition to painting, he is a writer, of mostly spy novels and nonfiction articles. His writing prowess shines through in his witty descriptions of his pieces.
Words that describe this painting: ballet, cityscape, New York, figurative, NYC, sky, skyline, buildings, high rise, beam, dance, architecture, people, pop, oil painting, blue
Steel
Keith Thomson
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2025
20 in. h x 30 in. w x 1.5 in. d
5 lbs. 0 oz.
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- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Condition:Steel. Keith Thomson. Oil painting on stretched canvas. Finished white edges. Varnished and Ready to hang. One-of-a-kind. Signed on front.
- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 799841stDibs: LU922116557402
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