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Video Still: “like a woodpecker with a headache or a nightingale with a toothache” 3:57 minutes. single channel video with sound, 2009.
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“I am you and you are me and together we are slowly becoming dust” (glitter and debris on canvas, 2009) 36 x 48 in
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Jayson Keeling
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“The Kingdom of Heaven is Within” detail. (glitter and debris on canvas, 2009) 60 x 72 in
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Jayson Keeling
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Jayson Keeling
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Jayson Keeling
Jayson Keeling
99 44/100% Pure
Artist talk: Thursday August 6, 6 PM
Keeling’s paintings mix iconographic imagery, text, and unconventional materials such as detritus and glitter to explore issues of exploitation, appropriation, and social hierarchy.
Artist's Statement
"My continuing objective is to anchor and subtly allude to desire in its purest manifestations. I am interested in death, excess, joy and the search for the futile and unattainable as they relate to notions of power, social hierarchy and the intangible avenues of their exploitation within culture. To this end, I apply an interdisciplinary practice that simultaneously explores and exploits cultural iconography and residue, with appropriationist gestures. I use painting, video, sculpture and photography to achieve this goal. I seek to undermine both the objectivity that people bring to the art experience, along with the creation in the viewer, of an acute awareness of their position in relation to the construction and confines of power."
About The Artist
Jayson Keeling was born in Brooklyn, NY and attended The Fashion Institute of Technology. He lives and works in Long Island City, Queens. For most of his career Keeling worked almost exclusively in the medium of photography but recently he has begun to explore painting, video,
and sculpture as well. His work has been featured in many exhibitions including The Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; Filmic, VideoStudio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Summer Mixtape Vol. 1, Exit Art, New York and The Wu-Tang googolplex Show (Congress), GBE@passerby, New York. His residencies include: The Apex Art Outbound Travel Residency to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2009), The Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council's Swing Space Residency (2009) and Workspace Residency (2007), The Bronx Museum?s A.I.M 27 (2006) and Aljiria?s Emerge 08 (2006).