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Media - Oil Paintings
Email - [email protected]
Website - http://www.warrenkeating.com
Somewhere on a bridge at The Getty Center or on a hotel balcony in Paris, you\'ll find Warren
Keating with his video camera, capturing footage of unsuspecting figures walking below. Later,
In a studio in Encino, you can find him pouring through frame after frame of video footage to
digitize a still frame that shows the perfect moment of weight shift, swing of the arm or tilt
of the head that tells volumes about each subject, which he feverishly paints, covering large
canvases with thick swashes of paint depicting an overhead view of a person in transit.
As a child Keating suffered from a disease that left Keating unable to walk for several
years. Now, he has become obsessed with walking as evident in his newest painting series. A
native of New Orleans and graduate of Otis Parsons, his work now reflects the culmination of
25 years of painting both the figure and the landscape. His first solo show at the Desmond
Gallery in Los Angeles in 1995 was followed by numerous solo shows of his paintings in the
U.S. and Mexico, including a special exhibit sponsored by the governor. Now, his work is sold
directly to a variety of collectors in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Keating's latest series, Overview, which combines video and paint, was selected as an LA
Times Calendar pick and won awards at juried exhibits at Long Beach Arts and recently at the
Visual Arts Society of Texas, Dallas. An interview with Keating about this series was featured
on CNN. The paintings are currently available at Orlando Gallery in Tarzana, and JoAnne Artman
Gallery, Laguna Beach.
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