Ian McKeever (artist)

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Ian McKeever

Ian McKeever

RA (born 30 November 1946) is a contemporary British artist. Since 1990 McKeever has lived and worked in Hartgrove, Dorset
, England.

Biography

McKeever was born and raised in

Royal Academician
.

Works

McKeever's early landscape photographic/drawing works such as Field Series (19780 and Waterfalls (1979) were influenced by the writings of Robert Smithson, followed by the over-painted landscape photographs in such groups as Lapland Paintings (1985–1986) and History of Rocks (1986–1988) where the painterly gesture comes to the fore. And finally, beginning with the Door Paintings (1990–1994), McKeever's works became more concerned with pure painting hovering between abstraction and a residual sense of figuration. This phase continues to this day in such groups of paintings as Temple Paintings (2004–2006) and Twelve-Standing (2009–2012) with an increased paring down of discernible subject matter in the work and an emphasis on the quality of light.

"Light in a painting intrigues me enormously: how to imbue a painting with light so that one is not actually depicting it, but somehow its quality is implicitly within the painting— [...] emanating from it."[3]

In 2006 McKeever returned to working with photographs, however they are now kept independent of his painted works.

Gallery

Writings

McKeever has written numerous texts and essays on art, including personal reflections on painting and on other painters' works. His 1982

Cambridge University and the University of Brighton were published as three essays in the book In Praise of Painting, covering topics such as the presence and absence of light in Western painting. Writings on other artists include Thoughts on Emil Nolde in 1996; Absolute Light, an essay on Russian icons for the British Museum magazine in 2004; and Thinking about Georgia O'Keeffe for the Louisiana Revy, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
.

Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

Collections

Selected Collections:

  • Arts Council of Great Britain, London
  • British Council, London
  • British Museum, London
  • Government Art Collection of Great Britain, London
  • The Royal Academy of Art, London
  • Tate Gallery, London
  • Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
  • Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
  • Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
  • Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
  • Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
  • New Carlsberg Foundation and New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder, Denmark
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
  • Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
  • Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany
  • Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
  • Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
  • Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungary
  • Nordic Aquarell Museum, Skärham, Sweden
  • National Gallery of South Africa, Johannesburg
  • Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
  • Cincinnati Museum of Modern Art, Cincinnati, USA
  • The Haggerty Museum of Modern Art, Milwaukee, USA
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
  • MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA
  • Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA

Notes

  1. ^ "Ian McKeever (Withernsea, UK 1946)". Art Miami. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Ian McKeever". Hull Culture and Leisure. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  3. ^ 'Inner Vision, Ian McKeever in conversation with Eleanor Mills', RA Magazine, Autumn 2009, p.83

References

External links

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