IN THE WATER I AM BEAUTIFUL • Kim Keever & Bruce Checefsky • curated by Savannah Spirit

 

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Acid Rain, 2002

Orange Marigold Tagetes, 2011

West158b, 2002

DAHLIA Tsuki Yore No Shisha, 2010

Palm 39b, 2005 • Babylon Red Dahlia, 2009

Best of Blue, 1998 • Sunflower (Helianthus annus), 2011

Wildflowers, 2008 • Allium aflatunense, 2011

Blue Delta, 2002 • Silver Artemisia, 2010

Cactus Dahlia, 2011 • 4457 W91r, 2008 • Poker Lily (Kniphofia uvaria), 2010

Zinnia elegans, 2011 • Wildflowers04g, 2008 • Celosia, 2011

Wild Lily (Lilium philadelphicum) • Wildflowers50k, 2008  • Liatris pycnostachya (Eureka), 2011

While peering into an alternate universe, such as Kim Keever has created using a 200 gallon glass tank filled with water, it's easy to get lost in the hidden chasms of his landscapes. Bruce Checefsky's flower scans embed themselves so naturally inside Kim's photographs you would think their works are a collaborative effort. Traversing from the macro to the micro and then back again, these artists work in non-traditional photography. Keever's process begins with the tank while bursts of paint languorously form into clouds filling crevasses of miniature flora and fauna. If you zoom in even closer you can imagine Checefsky's garden full of luscious color and sublime movement created by a scanner mounted to a tripod, sometimes catching a petal moving it at will. When your eyes wander through the landscape, simultaneously stopping where the flowers are nestled, it's as if this world does exist somewhere and how special that place would be.    -Savannah Spirit

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Links:

http://www.artspace.com/kim-keever.html

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2011/07/25/110725goar_GOAT_art

http://hamptonroads.com/2011/07/kim-keevers-scenes-fish-tank

http://www.newarttv.com/Kim+Keever

http://www.offoffoff.com/art/2005/kimkeever.php

http://www.mocacleveland.org/exhibition_details.php?exhibition_id=72

http://www.contemporaryart.com/moca-museum-of-contemporary-art-cleveland/delicious-fields-ohio-photographers-at-work/

http://www.akronartmuseum.org/exhibitions/details.php?unid=2409

http://brucechecefsky.com/index.html

http://savannahspirit.com