We are pleased to share that the Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Netherlands has acquired Flat Green (2020) by Erin O’Keefe. Flat Green (2020) includes classic elements of O’Keefe’s practice where she creates still life arrangements of painted wood blocks and planes as she continues her exploration into the questions about the way spatial conditions are transformed by the camera as three-dimensional form and space become two-dimensional image.
Erin O’Keefe at Seventeen by Emily LaBarge The wrongness of images, or our apperceptions of them: What appears to be a painting is actually a photograph. What appear to be two-dimensional painted lines, curves, rectangles, arabesques, planes of color, or abstract geometries with trompe l’oeil shadows are in fact three-dimensional objects carefully arranged, brightly illuminated, and flattened into a beguiling single plane by the lens of a camera. “I’m interested in finding/discovering/choreographing moments of uncertainty that exist in the…Read More
Congratulations Erin O’Keefe for being featured in the Winter Issue of the Paris Review! Check out the portfolio along with an essay by Kate Tarker. The latest issue of ‘The Paris Review’ features an Art of Poetry interview with Edward Hirsch and an Art of Theater interview with Suzan-Lori Parks, issue no. 235 also includes plays by David Adjmi, Kirk Lynn, and Claudia Rankine; fiction by György Dragomán, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Jack Livings; poetry by Rita Dove and Natalie…Read More
Erin O’Keefe continues to trick the eye with her bewildering photography By: Ayla Angelos, July 2, 2019 Erin O’Keefe is no stranger to It’s Nice That. She first graced our screens in 2014 and again in 2015 – like magpies we were instantly drawn to the bright colours and structural geometry that features throughout her work. And now she returns with her latest series, Built Work. But don’t be fooled – these aren’t paintings. The New York-based photographer and former architect majestically…Read More
5 Artists Whose Instagram Accounts Are Just as Vivid, Colorful, and Bold as Their Artworks Take a look at how these top artists are documenting their works on social media. By: Nora Brara, June 26, 2019 Artists and Instagram: has there ever been a better pairing? It’s almost like the photo-sharing service was designed for creators to show off their wares. And not only that: Instagram also allows outsiders to get behind-the-scenes access to studios, works in progress, cultural inspirations, and the…Read More
With its rose-hued walls and girl-power programming, the Wing has become something of a legend in its own time. Since the club first opened in Manhattan’s Flatiron District in 2016, it has been regularly revered, occasionally mocked (all that pink!), and even investigated by a human rights group for its women-only policy. But the Wing, which now counts four locations in New York City and Washington, D.C., and is preparing to open two more outposts in California—both of which are decidedly less…Read More
A Painter’s Photographer: Erin O’Keefe’s Bewitching Shapes By R.C. Baker May 15, 2018 When I first walked into the gallery, I mistook Erin O’Keefe’s photographs for smooth-surfaced paintings, with an intense but exquisitely tuned palette and dynamic abstract compositions. Everything about them — the triangular shadows cast across two emerald-green rectangles by a mottled yellow crosspiece — recalled the way a painting’s built-up strokes impart a sense of time passing, of long sessions in the studio. When I finally determined,…Read More
Denny Gallery is launching a new weekly series featuring some of our creative clients and partners. Find out what they do and why they collect. We will feature them on the News page of our website and in a few social media posts throughout the week. They will also curate a selection of their favorite artworks available in Shop Denny Gallery. You can follow these stories at #gallerymeetsworld No. 1: Katharine Earnhardt of Mason Lane Art Advisory Services Katharine Earnhardt…Read More
Erin O’Keefe By: Jeff Gibson Summer 2017. Vo. 55. No. 10.
Erin O’Keefe, Book of Days @Denny By Loring Knoblauch, May 1, 2017 JTF (just the facts): A total of 15 color and black and white photographs, framed in white and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the two room gallery space. All of the works are archival pigment prints mounted on museum board, made in 2016 and 2017. Physical sizes are either 20×16, 25×20, or 40×32, and all of the prints are available in editions of 3. Comments/Context: While…Read More
The Phenomenon of Light and Shadow: A Q&A with Erin O’Keefe BY TAYLOR DAFOE | APRIL 24, 2017 Picking up in the tradition of still life photographers such as Barbara Kasten and Jan Groover, as well as sculptors like Brancusi and David Smith who used photography to explore the perspectival limitations of their own work, Erin O’Keefe makes pictures that reinvent physical space. She creates sculptures in a sense, but they’re not autonomous; they cannot exist without the photograph. O’Keefe…Read More
Meet the Artist: A Few Questions for Architect-Photographer Erin O’Keefe, on Creating “Cubist Space” With the Camera By Karen Rosenberg April 27, 2016 NAME: Erin O’Keefe AGE: 53 HOMETOWN: New York City BASE OF OPERATIONS: New York City MEDIUM OF CHOICE: Photography is my medium of choice, but I make sculptural arrangements as the subject of my photographs—so although there are some other media involved along the way, the final product is always a photograph. WHY I MAKE ART: I make…Read More
Read on Musee Magazine. April 23, 2016 (NOT SO) STILL LIFE AT WAVE HILL (Not So) Still Life presents novel ways that contemporary artists are transforming the still life genre to engage with current culture. As a subject, the still life gained popularity in the Early Renaissance as an alternative to landscape, portraiture or religious subjects. Compositions of natural and inanimate objects were often presented with allegorical connotations. Today, artists are creating new variations by working in photography and sculpture…Read More
The Flatness A Conversation with American Photographer Erin O’Keefe By Hudson Brown, February Issue Erin O’Keefe is an American photographer who has beautifully translated her two decades experience as an architect into her image making. View article HERE.
Read in The New Yorker. Printed in the October 5, 2015 Issue. ERIN O’KEEFE September 9, 2015 – October 10, 2015 Photographs of geometric arrangements of painted boards and tinted Plexiglas will inevitably draw comparisons to Barbara Kasten’s influential oeuvre. O’Keefe, a New York artist and architect, nods to Kasten (and to Eileen Quinlan and Sara VanDerBeek) but stakes her own claim to the territory—call it Bauhaus playhouse—in a series of seductively simple color images. Using reflected light and overlapping colors,…Read More
Read on Style No Chaser. HOLY SHIT! Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery By Efrem Zelony-Mindell, October 4, 2015 Leaving Erin O’Keefe’s studio, facing a long train ride home, I opened my issue of Art In America. Two pages in and wait – what am I doing? I want to start writing about O’Keefe! Her light and color drive a hunger inside, and to feast on her elaborate constructions reward. Establishing depth, and weight for a two dimensional surface is no…Read More
Watch on Gorky’s Granddaughter Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery, Sept 2015 By Zachary Keeting, Posted on September 25, 2015
Read on Collector Daily. Erin O’Keefe, Things as They Are @Denny By Loring Knoblauch, September 15, 2015 JTF (just the facts): A total of 13 color photographs, framed in white and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the two room gallery space. All of the works are archival pigment prints mounted on museum board or Sintra, and were made in 2015. The ten prints in the main gallery (from the Things As They Are series) are each sized 20×16,…Read More
Read on PDN Erin O’Keefe: Perspective, Light, Color September 9, 2015 Photographer Erin O’Keefe is fascinated by the way the camera “translates a three-dimensional subject into two-dimensional image.” A licensed architect who made sculptures before she devoted herself to photography about five years ago, O’Keefe composes the elements in her still lifes in a way that confuses perspective. Images in her newest series, “Things as They Are,” opening tonight at Denny Gallery in New York, are elegantly simple: They are…Read More
Read on Paper Journal Studio Visit: Erin O’Keefe Interview by Matthew Leifheit, Published September 9, 2015 Erin O’Keefe is a studio artist who has taken 800 pictures of a corner in her studio since last year. It’s not that she finds the corner itself particularly beautiful, it’s just a space that—when customised with very deliberate combinations of colours and materials, lit precisely, and photographed in an exacting way—can transcend its materials and become an otherworldly experience that challenges traditional perceptions…Read More
Frameshift @Denny Gallery By Loring Knoblauch/ In Galleries/ June 27, 2014 JTF (just the facts): A group show containing a total of 11 works by 6 different artists/photographers, generally framed in white and unmatted, and hung against white walls in the two room gallery space. The show was curated by useful pictures (here). The following artists/photographers have been included in the show, with the number of works on view and image details as background: Lorne Blythe: 2 archival inkjet prints mounted on sintra, 2013,…Read More
FRAMESHIFT AT DENNY GALLERY Denny Gallery presents “Frameshift,” curated by useful pictures, an artist-run investigation into the future of photographic practice. “Frameshift” focuses on the blending of classic photography and the digital world. The images are each manipulated via encoding, scanning, embedding or altering context. Artists featured include Barry Stone, Lorne Blythe, Heather Cleary, Erin O’Keefe, Pieter Schoolwerth and Wendy White. Barry Stone alters the coded data itself pulled from a digital photograph in order to corrupt the original image. Lorne…Read More
