Harrison Keys, who passed away on Thursday, July 7, had a reputation as an artist for infusing his signature cynical humor,
jubilant color and energetic linework in his paintings and drawings.
Not exact matches
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The artist's seemingly distinct activities — the severe black abstractions, the prolific and caustic social and political graphic work, and the
color slides of historical monuments, temples, and buildings that showed his equally prolific world travels and keen sense of photographic record keeping — were received in coexistence by
jubilant viewers, especially young artists and art students (during the artist's lifetime it would have been career suicide to show all simultaneously practiced sides together).
He is the founder of the unique style of Bad Painting, which is characterized by a bright palette of
colors and exaggerated distortion of images — a
jubilant depiction of lawlessness and violence in society, which the artist sarcastically criticizes through his «indictments»...
In works like «Fever Graph (algorithm for serendipity)» (2013) and «Insile» (2013)(a work very much in dialogue with Sigmar Polke) and «Co-Evolution of the Futurhyth Machine (after Kodwo Eshun)» (2013),
color becomes a vehicle for emotions strange,
jubilant and foreboding.
With that said, there are also many radiant
colors that are rather
jubilant, piercing through said New Paintings After The Long Winter like spring time.