About
Kathleen Keifer's original paintings represent a significant expression of New California Realism, bringing a contemporary perspective to California landscapes, coastal scenery, and iconic American imagery. Her painting 'Tommy Trojan' captures the celebrated University of Southern California equestrian tradition, featuring the USC Trojan mascot riding a white horse against a vibrant red backdrop. Known for her colorful scenes of everyday life along the Pacific coastline and beyond, Keifer transforms recognizable landmarks and cultural symbols into compelling contemporary artworks.
• One-of-a-kind artwork measuring 24 inches high and 30 inches wide
• Created using acrylic on canvas
• Wired and ready to hang
• Painted on all sides
• Signed by the artist on the front
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. Her paintings invite the viewer to consider the complex relationship between time and timelessness. It is the sheer visual interaction between the elements, taken in their bare simplicity, that interests her. Water, sky, and architecture change their appearance with the shifts in weather and light. Her broken brushstrokes depict light and color in luminous waves, dissolving form into a shimmering surface of vibrant light. For her, painting captures the very essence of time and its passage.
While painting landscapes, she became fascinated with isolating the objects in her paintings. She believes that actual sites and places have individual magic. The goal is to take objects from popular culture and paint them in a new context. She began to paint the silhouette of the Life Guard Tower more as a pop art symbol than a landscape element. With a high level of technical virtuosity, Keifer creates a new sense of reality with textures and colors that seem to add lighting effects and distinct shadows, confronting the viewer with new interpretations of familiar objects.
Born and raised in Chicago, Kathleen Keifer is a second-generation artist. Her mother, also a fine artist, exposed Keifer to the world of art and supervised her training from a very early age. This legacy continues today as Keifer closely nurtures the development of the artistic leaning in each of her three daughters, inspiring a third generation of female artists. Her works are represented by Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and have been exhibited and collected internationally, including Chicago, New York, and London.
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