Jayson Keeling

Thursday, June 18 - Sunday, August 16
opening reception: Thurs., 6/18, 6 -8 PM

Hartford, Connecticut -- Real Art Ways presents paintings and video by Jayson Keeling.  Keeling’s work explores issues of power, social hierarchy and cultural exploitation. The opening reception is Thursday, June 18 from 6-8 PM and is part of Creative Cocktail Hour, a gathering of people for music, art, and each other on the third Thursday of every month. Real Art Ways is located in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood.  For more information contact Real Art Ways: 860.232.1006, realartways.org.
 
About the Show
Keeling’s paintings mix iconographic imagery, text, and unconventional materials such as detritus and glitter to explore issues of exploitation, appropriation, and social hierarchy.  His Real Art Ways show will feature an accompanying video piece.  
 
"My continuing objective is to anchor and subtly allude to desire in its purest manifestations … To this end, I apply an interdisciplinary practice that simultaneously explores and exploits cultural iconography and residue, with appropriationist gestures.” –Jayson Keeling

About the Artist
Jayson Keeling is a photographer, sculptor, painter, and video artist.  He lives and works in Queens, New York. His work has been featured in many exhibitions including The Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; 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.

Video Still: “Like A Woodpecker With A Headache Or A Nightingale With A Toothache” 3:57 Minutes. Single Channel Video With Sound, 2009.

Support
This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of our Members, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust, Sandy and Howard Fromson, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.


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