Claudia Keep’s (b. 1993) paintings reveal the intimate complexity of quotidian moments. Composed of soft lines and shapes, they convey impressions of the ordinary that are curiously lucid. Working from both life and personal photographs, Keep illuminates the intricacies of simple scenes: light falling in a quiet room, the shapes that a modest object casts onto the sidewalk, infinite beads of water resting in a spiderweb. This record of detail rescues the humblest of beauty from invisibility, by its nature an invitation to look more closely.
Claudia Keep was born in 1993 in Low Moor, Virginia. Her solo exhibitions include Day In, Day Out at Tif Sigfrids (Athens, GA) in 2022, Claudia Keep at Tops Gallery and Night Moves at MARCH in 2021, John’s Friends at Galerie Ulysses (Vienna, Austria) and A Day in Maine at the University of Kentucky Medical Center Gallery (Lexington, Kentucky) in 2019. Keep has also exhibited with The Painting Center (New York, NY), Auxier Kline (New York, NY) and Ablebaker Contemporary (Portland, ME). Keep has been represented by MARCH since 2020.
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Claudia Keep
Sunset From the Forest Avenue M, 2020
Oil on paper
8 x 7 inches
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Claudia Keep
Leaving Richmond, 2021
Oil on masonite panel
10 x 12 inches
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Claudia Keep
Morning Light, Quiet Crush, 2020
Oil on masonite panel
10 x 8 inches
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Claudia Keep
J's Garage, 2021
Oil on masonite panel
10 x 8 inches
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Claudia Keep
Spring Morning, 2021
Oil on masonite panel
12 x 10 inches
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Claudia Keep
Helicopter Over the East River, 2019
Oil on paper
12 x 9 inches
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Claudia Keep
Fête Champêtre, 2020
Oil on panel
10 x 12 inches
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NADA Miami 2021
Installation View
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Claudia Keep
Sun Sets on the Spider, 2021
Oil on panel
10 x 8 inches
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Claudia Keep
Tops Gallery
Installation View
2021
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Claudia Keep
Evening, In May, 2020
Oil on panel
14 x 12 inches
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Night Moves
Installation View
Image: Tag Christof
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Claudia Keep
West Virginia Gas Station, Early Evening, 2019
Oil on panel
12 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
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Night Moves
Installation View
Image: Tag Christof
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Claudia Keep
Untitled, 2020
Watercolor on paper
6 x 8 inches
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Claudia Keep
Installation View
Reyes | Finn
2021