SLOW DOWN COWBOY!

my brother and me and my cousin!

The New One!

This is called Palm. And I am really excited about everything I've been working on! Its watercolor, ink and silver leaf on paper with a handloomed fabric piece underneath.

a few things i found

My Newest Painting

THE NEW
32" by 54"
Oil Paint on Stitched Canvas
2009
www.katykeefe.com

did you know a bunch of people died in the war of the worlds riot?

i had no idea. i dont think i know enough. here's scott and i!

good luck out there

check out denis leary's wife!

XYZ brotha!

THE YIELD: 2009 Harold Arts Residency Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, October 23rd, 2009 from 7-11 PM
HEAVEN GALLERY and JOHALLA PROJECTS
1550 and 1561 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL

Each summer, The Harold Arts Residency Program brings together emerging and midcareer artists and musicians to work in the wilderness. This exhibition presents the products of that work. I have a new painting in it that you should come check out.

kisses from wales

the mexican food vendor

Some new paintings I brought to London

you know what i like about moving? you see other people moving. late at night. walking your dog. and they are tired and excited. you also know every single apartment for rent in the city and you analyze other apartments while sitting at the stoplight.

big things are happening!

the sunflowers are groovin, "Alma" ran into my car outside of CVS, i'm selling some stuff, and i finally got that beach boys record i wanted for so long!

OH MAN! this is the WORST!

YOU CAN BUILD A HOUSE show opens tomorrow night, London TIME!

PRIVATE VIEW: September 2nd, 6-10PM
The Pigeon Wing
Top Floor (front),
Guild House Rollins Street,
London,United Kingdom.
SE15 1EP

in case you were wondering what its like

Shoes N Mash!

This exhibition is a test of foundations. In You Can Build a House the audience is guided to a point of introspection. As people we must be honest about why we promote that which is being advocated through the way we live our lives. Until this rudimentary obstacle is confronted there is hardly any room for complex considerations. Where post-modern thought takes us is into a place where truth and meaning are gone. When something is eliminated, though, something must be posited into its place. For this exhibition we will examine the inadequacy of redefinition and shed light onto an absolute that is found within a non-absolute world view.

Assuming the roles of object, gesture and metaphor, the works manifest their duties. Serving as a stand-in or a prop, they are here as devices to fulfil expected presentational norms. Being objective in nature and subjective in process they are concerned with aesthetic joy. Since the works of art are both a means and an end, investigation should be in the intent. The true end remains open to allow possibility for acceptance and change. What is being denied when something is being affirmed?

The works are attempts at both the ends and the means of this thought. By working under the assumption that these art pieces are insignificant, they can be seen as trials. The testing of ideas, the different modes of working and the sought conclusions of a process are in question. Though they appear to reflect a philosophy, does the ultimate foundation confirm this fact? New ideas may cause one to believe that genuine hope is unattainable, but on what deeper level have these ideas moulded any part of the Truth? You can build a house made with doorways to nowhere, stairways that lead to nothingness and windows that open to walls; only when the structure of the foundation is tampered with will you lose trust in the house. Otherwise, thinking is thinking.

The Pigeon Wing, Top Floor Guild House, Excelsior Works, Rollins Street, London, SE15 1EP
info@thepigeonwing.co.uk | www.thepigeonwing.co.uk
+44 (0)797 6844 720

these a few things that happened at harold this summer

i cut alot of hair.
scott, michael boles and i read a poem by a pond.
scott and i and a bunch of other people made a tshirt.
ron won a boat race.

I am off to Harold Arts Residency and you should see this show JIMBO curated!

GET IT TOGETHER
Assemblage Collage and Collaboration
July 24th and 25th at Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 South Morgan St.
Chicago Illinois, 60608

Join us for a three dimensional freak out of color, form and material. Walk the isles of a hand-made grocery store created completely out of paper, shoot hoops on a 3 story high basketball net, or just sit down at our collage table and create some work of your own. After the opening and subsequent hangover, come back on July 25th for an art-making BBQ throw down as we combine our creative energies to make collages which we will hand-deliver for free to the people walking around this great city. So drop on by, check out some good stuff and make some of your own. We will have magazines, scissors and glue on hand but feel free to bring your own collage materials to throw down.

Participants: Chris Roberson, Emily Clayton, Dr. James Harry Ewert Jr, Rod Hunting, Adrianne Goodrich , Peter Skvara, Chad Kouri, Matt Nicolas, Jim Kozar, Ed Marszewski, Ben Speckmann, Sarah Jeziorski, Richard Smith and more. Audio collage performances by Le Deuce and Rik Shaw.

getittogethershow.com

Brought to you by Chad Kouri
and Dr. James Harry Ewert Jr.

the newest coolest stuff

be back in 20 minutes

BON VOYAGE! Art Raffle and Concert at Heaven Gallery this Friday!

You should come: Scott and I made the posters and have art in it and will be bartending...

Somebody hacked into my email account and this is what all my friends think i'm doing now.

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summer is almost here! i went to kansas and looked what happened

we went swimming at a public pool in kansas, we stopped at the cahokia indian mounds outside of st. louis, and i saw my best friend maggie's chickens (and my namesake "georgia")

"Eyes to the Unknown" Painting Show in Milwaukee on Friday!

"Eyes to the Unknown" is a series of paintings and drawings of profound optimism and regeneration. The work in this exhibition addresses themes of love and enlightenment using individuals as the vehicles for expression. These are serious investigations of the human as subject and all those elements that make up the personality of the subject construct the imagery surrounding. Bodies intertwine, overgrowth of flora envelop the canvas, and geometric configurations warp light in and out of the landscapes depicted. What is conveyed is the deep soul of a thing. My work is very personal in nature, constructed in a way that reads like a visual diary; for this exhibition the viewer is opened to the world often hid behind and underneath my previous artworks.

this is maggies new video for her LATEST perfomance interactive social long term project

these are a couple of watercolors I did down in the carribean over christmas. i didnt think they were that cool until i recently looked at them again.

here is scott hanging his ropes at NEXT

Katy Keefe at NEXT 2009r:Part of Chicago's ARTROPOLIS

The NEXT Art Fair takes place this coming Friday-Monday with a preview party on Thursday night. I will be displaying photography at the Harold Arts/Heaven Gallery booth during that time. In addition I will be assisting the Bunker Gallery from London, and on Sunday afternoon will have my paintings on display at their booth for a public critique. Hope to see you all there!

NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art
More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations--galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world.

NEXT will be located at:
The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60654

NEXT 2009 Opening Preview takes place Thursday, April 30
Show Hours:
Friday, May 1, 11am - 7pm
Saturday, May 2, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 3, 11am - 6pm
Monday, May 4, 11am - 4pm

Katy Keefe and Michael Kloss at Version Fest>09 NFO XPO

The NFO XPO (pronounced "info expo") brings art groups and community orgs together to exchange information and ideas as well as provide a public platform for each group to present themselves. WE see it as a trade show for experimental art, emerging spaces, and radical exchange. It's our version of what an art fair could be.

SATURDAY APRIL 25TH AND SUNDAY APRIL 26TH from 1-8 PM
$8 Adults/$3 Kids
Benton House
3052 S Gratten Avenue
Chicago's South Side/Bridgeport Neighborhood

Clothing Sale MONDAY, the 20th from 6-9 PM at Pistol Bazaar!

Hey. I am having a clothing sale at Pistol Bazaar at 1717 West Chicago Avenue in Chicago, Illinois from 6-9 P.M. on Monday the 20th of April 4:20!!! and there will be shirts like the one below, and paintings and beer and me and my friends. You should "STOP BY".

this is my boyfriend. officially.

my best friend's chickens

this is camping

oh WOW!

my dreams became reality! dustin helped me make an octogan canvas! (and i started writing my book last night)

over the moooonnnnnnn! (another one of mike and eyes paintings)

Harold Arts DANCE PARTY This Saturday!!

This is a fundraiser that I have been helping to organize. Basically a big party with a bunch of dj's and booze at mike, ron and dustin's house. You should all come! It SATURDAY NIGHT from 9 PM-3AM at 128 NORTH CAMPBELL (LAKE AND WESTERN).
















and the first batch of beer...

woah prak-sis!

this is an open studio art show at my building this weekend! Saturday from 6 PM-Midnight and it is a fundraiser for prak-sis so it costs 5 BUCKS to get in! I'll have some paintings and drawings and Scott's hanging up photographs and if you want to just hang out and drink in my apartment you should come!