130. IAN
McKEEVER
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Caspar's Tree
1986
Oil & photograph on canvas,
220 x 170 cm
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Assumptio II (Breathing)
1999
Oil & acrylic on canvas,
245 x 330 cm
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Day Painting, 11 April 1999
1999
Oil & acrylic on canvas,
111 x 141.8 cm
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1946 in Withernsea, England
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Dorset, England
Studies:
McKeever studied English Literature and began working
as an artist in 1968. In 1970 he took his first studio at SPACE, St.
Katherine's dock, London, an artists' initiative set up by Bridget Riley and
Peter Sedgley. His first group exhibition was held in West Berlin in 1971, and
this was soon followed by his first solo exhibition at Cardiff Arts Centre. He
was awarded the Arts Council Bursary in 1973 and in the same year held his
first London solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). In 1989
he was awarded the DAAD scholarship in Berlin. This was followed in 1990 by a
major retrospective exhibition of his work at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
In 2003 he was elected a Royal Academician.
Themes and style:
His works 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.
Techniques:
As well
as a painter, McKeever is a gifted printmaker and has worked in etching,
drypoint, woodcut and lithography.
Exhibitions
The work is represented in numerous public
collections in Europe and the USA including Tate Gallery, London, British Museum,
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Government Art Collection, The
British Council, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Mumok,
Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna, Morat Institute, Freiburg i.Brg, Schloss
Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Kunsthalle Kiel, Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæck, New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Horsens
Kunstmuseum, Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseet, Nordic Aquarell Museum in Sweden,
Kiasma, Helsinki, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New
York, Yale Center for British Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, MIT List Visual
Arts Center, Massachusetts and Cincinnati Museum of Modern Art, Cincinnati. See
all at:
Representative
Galleries:
Alan Christea
In
his own words:
For
more Information: