CHRISTINE KEEFE
CHROMATIC NARRATIVES
Cover: Heist, 2010
oil on linen 56 x 74 in
CHRISTINE KEEFE CHROMATIC NARRATIVES
August 19 - September 10, 2023 4 North Main Street Southampton, NY 11968 www.mmfineart.com
Christine Keefe is an artist based in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York. Keefe started The Creative Sign Company in 1978 in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1985 she graduated from The School of Visual Arts in New York City with a BFA in Fine Art.The same year she began exhibiting paintings with The Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden. Wetterling has also exhibited her paintings in Singapore and in various art fairs in the U.S. and internationally. She has also exhibited in New York City and on the East End of Long Island. Keefe currently works on Butter Lane in Bridgehampton.
Keefe’s paintings juxtapose personal, political, and social subject matter pulled from both her own photography and appropriated imagery. Fragmentary landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and color fields overlap and intersect, forming dynamic compositions that are narratively-charged while evading explicit interpretation. Her technique combines illusionism and flatness; representational images and fluid, soft contours are contained and dissected by hard, tapered edges, suggesting a controlled approach.
Keefe’s visual language draws on elements of New Realism and Abstract Expressionism. She effortlessly brings photographic elements into and out of focus, alternating between structured reality and lyrical abstraction. In some instances, including her Flag series, gestural lines and mark making come to the foreground, creating surface tensions that reverberate throughout the painting.
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