Ken Keeley Biography and Artwork

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Ken Keeley is vaulting into the ranks of the elite not so much by charting new territory in his street scenes and newsstands but because he gives his true-to-life works a life of their own.

Keeley's collections of candy bars and magazines; storefronts and street scenes grab your interest and captivate it. Transcending the limits of technical virtuosity, Keeley has become one of the more recognizable artists working today-and not simply because the paintings he creates are of New York City's most recognizable vistas. Gus interpretations of various Manhattan landmarks-past and present-including but not limited to Times Square Trump Tower, Radio City, Paddy's Clam House, Prince Street and many more intricate portraits of newsstands, candy stores, fruit stands, well-known restaurants and street corners have earned Keeley international acclaim.

The artist's research involves photographing literally hundreds of sights for potential paintings from many angles-often a treacherous feat when you're trying to shoot a fish store form across a typically well-trafficked New York street. The final paintings are not just faithful translations of these images but reconstructions devised by the artist that always include some whimsical or private code.

Keeley's reluctance to fit into that very slick element that is known in the art world as photo-realist or super-realist is not just a natural resistance to be categorized: his mature body of work contains the detail inherent in the aforementioned divisions of the art world, with a luminosity and sensitivity that separated Keeley from those other very gifted artists who simply assault us with their more-than-perfect recreations.

Keeley, like Eckelberry, gives his work a feeling and personality that adds beauty and grace to what could very easily fall into the mundane. With all his recent success, Keeley still remains the consummate artist-Disciplines, humble, and very serious about his work. He is at the point in his career where he cannot produce paintings quickly enough to meet the demand, and, unlike many other artists working today, he will hear nothing of studio assistants, projectors of any other process that will speed up production. He lives and works in Lake Placid, Florida.

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• 1964 - Stearns Square Art Council, Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1965 - Chestnut Art Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1967 - Ken's Art Studio, Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1967 - Springfield Museum Of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
• 1970 - To 1974 - Westhampton Arts Council, Westhampton, New York
• 1975 - Great World Of Art, Commack, New York
• 1976 - To 1981 - Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
• 1981 - Westhampton Arts Council, Westhampton, New York
• 1982 - Chrysalis Art Gallery, Westhampton, New York
• 1983 - Art Expo, Dallas, Texas
• 1983 - Art Expo, New York, New York
• 1985 - Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
• 1985 - 86 - Art Expo, New York, New York
• 1987 - Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
• 1987 - Art Expo, New York, New York
• 1988 - Art Expo, Los Angeles, California
• 1989 - Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
• 1989 - Art Expo, New York, New York
• 1989 - Allyson Louis Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
• 1990 - Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
• 1991 - Patricia Judith Art Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
• 1992 - Stricoff Fine Art, Soho, New York
• 1992 - Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
• 1992 - 95 - Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
• 1994 - Art Miami, Miami, Florida
• 1996 - Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
• 1996 - Art Americas, Miami Beach, Florida
• 1996 - Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
• 1996 - Art Expo, New York
• 1999 - Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
• 2000 - Soundview Art Gallery, Port Jefferson, New York
• 2001 - Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
• 2002 - Sundook Art Galleries, Boca Raton, Florida

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• Greyhound - circa 1995, Serigraph
• Time Square Night, Changing Scene - circa 1995, Serigraph
• Little Italy - Serigraph
• Paddy's Clam House - circa 1995, Serigraph
• Times Square Day - circa 1995, Serigraph
• 59th Street Bridge - Giclee

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