Abstract:
Claudia Keep’s small-scale oil paintings of quotidian moments are rooted in the careful act of looking. Her favored subjects—interior and exterior scenes, animals and plant life— are drawn from a personal archive of photographs, forming an ongoing diaristic documentation that preserves observations. Keep trains her eye on fleeting moments: early morning dewdrops on blades of grass, ominous clouds overhead during a moonlit drive, or a caterpillar crawling slowly along a leaf. As the artist notes, “I’m interested in trying to capture a sense of movement because I am trying to paint what it feels like to see something. I think sensation comes with movement or at least a certain suggestion of physicality.”


Parker Gallery will represent Keep in collaboration with MARCH, New York. MARCH will present its second solo exhibition with the artist in New York in 2025. Parker Gallery will show new paintings by Keep in a group presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2024. The artist’s second solo exhibition with Parker Gallery will open in Los Angeles in 2026.


Claudia Keep (b. 1993 in Low Moor, VA) lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BFA from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA. Recent solo exhibitions include Somehow, Somewhere, Someway, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France (2024), In Bed, 12.26, Dallas, TX (2024), Almanac, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023), Aubade, March, New York, NY (2022); Day In, Day Out, Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA (2022)