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Donald Keefe Art

b. 1984
Donald Keefe was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1984, grew up in Southern California, and has lived and worked all around the United States from rural Appalachia to New York City and Miami, Florida. He received a BFA from the University of Kentucky in 2009, and an MFA from the University of Florida in 2013. Donald’s artwork has been exhibited nationally, included in a variety of publications, and won awards. He has also completed private commissions and was the recipient of a federal grant for a public arts project. He currently lives just outside of Chattanooga with his wife and two sons, where he serves as Associate Professor of Art at Southern Adventist University.
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UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 6 - Framed Abstract Painting in Blue, Yellow, White & Green
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 6 - Framed Abstract Painting in Blue, Yellow, White & Green

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 6 - Framed Abstract Painting in Blue, Yellow, White & Green

By Donald Keefe

Located in Signal Mountain, TN

Many of the works in this series have a similar viewing distance from the subject. In Untitled Construct 6 I wanted to close that distance by painting a picture with the view being c...

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2010s Contemporary Donald Keefe Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 5 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Grey, Green, & Yellow
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 5 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Grey, Green, & Yellow

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 5 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Grey, Green, & Yellow

By Donald Keefe

Located in Signal Mountain, TN

Continuing a series of formal investigations that blur the lines between representational, flat, and abstract painting approaches, I created Untitled Construct 3. As with previous wo...

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2010s Contemporary Donald Keefe Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 4 - Framed Red, Yellow, & Teal Abstract Oil Painting
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 4 - Framed Red, Yellow, & Teal Abstract Oil Painting

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 4 - Framed Red, Yellow, & Teal Abstract Oil Painting

By Donald Keefe

Located in Signal Mountain, TN

"I don’t do enough red paintings. I like red, but somehow it doesn’t end up in my work all that often, or it ends up pretty muted and earthy by the end. When I was lighting the sculpture upon which this painting is based, I knew I wanted to do something with the red lights I had. As with previous work, this painting explores entanglement as both a compositional structure and as an artistic idea. The representational part of the painting is pushed as close to a photographic rendering as I could at the time. Meanwhile, I’ve contrasted that with flat graphic elements. I also wanted to do something interesting with the cast shadow of the form: whereas in some previous works in the series the main form either had a traditional cast shadow grounding the it to the illusion of a ground plane, or no cast shadow which left it floating within the shallow depth of the image, in Untitled Construct 5 I wanted to do something more specific with the cast shadow. The idea came to me to invert it to be pure white. Technically this was a bit of a challenge because the whitest oil paints take months to dry – so this work had quite a bit of ‘sit and wait time’ between layers. Personally, I enjoy the composition of this painting because the red attracts the eye towards the bottom left of the painting, but the contrasting movements in black, gray and white pull the eye up and over...

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2010s Contemporary Donald Keefe Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 2 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Green, Blue, & Grey
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 2 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Green, Blue, & Grey

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 2 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Green, Blue, & Grey

By Donald Keefe

Located in Signal Mountain, TN

This painting is inspired by a non-representational compositional sketch that I turned into a sculpture and then an oil painting. Whereas previous works were treating the sculptural form strictly as a still life, in Untitled Construct 2 I wanted to bring the work back to its abstract origins. I lit the sculpture with colored lights...

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2010s Donald Keefe Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 1 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Yellow, Black & Blue
UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 1 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Yellow, Black & Blue

UNTITLED CONSTRUCT 1 - Abstract/Figurative Oil Painting in Yellow, Black & Blue

By Donald Keefe

Located in Signal Mountain, TN

I have sketchbooks filled with small thumbnail drawings which I usually base compositional arrangements upon. These are non-representational: just lines, arcs, mass tones, etc – basically just playing with formal elements. I had an idea to recreate these doodles as small sculptures. I liked the results, and wanted to have it feed back into my painting work as an intermediate step. That idea grew and I began lighting the sculptures with colored lights...

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2010s Contemporary Donald Keefe Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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