Bob Keating CV
Exhibitions
Still River Gallery, Danbury, CT solo show of sumi paintings.
Plazzo Pisani Revedin Art Gallery, Venice, Italy.
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA.
Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, N.Y.,
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT.
Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford, MA. (One person exhibition; Reviewed by Don Wilkinson for the Standard Times of New Bedford, MA.)
The Governor’s Mansion, Hartford, CT.
The North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show
Outdoor sculpture at De Dee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA.
Collected by
The Science Center, Hartford, CT.
Jane Howard Hammerstein
Mia Farrow
Skitch Henderson
Stephen Sondheim
Awards and grants
Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grant.2004
Weir Farm Trust Visiting Artist 2004
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture best in show award.2020
Bob Keating’s statement
I received a BFA in sculpture from Swain School of Design in New Bedford, MA. I live and make sumi drawings and sculpture in Southbury Connecticut. My thinking, skill and sumi painting help my inspiration take a form. White quartz rocks appear frequently in my work and they give me great pleasure to see and be around. They are visible even at night. Quartz rock is like the salt in an unfamiliar meal I wish to share with everyone.
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A statement on the materials I use
Gravity I make sculpture that is by design in possession of the awareness of gravity. It’s important to me and I’m sensitive to it. Because the sculptures are rooted in gravity their comfortable where there’s gravity.
Steel I use it consistently. The way I bend it and form it is how I speak. The steel will hold my voice in whatever I do with it. This is how it becomes supportive of how the sculpture feels to someone. Even if the steel is covered with concrete it is still holding hands inside it.
Concrete, Concrete is a material with an ancient human past and when mixed up fresh it’s as new as I am alive. The fact that it hardens from a soft mud is amazingly decisive; and when I decide we decide together.
Quartz, Quartz is loaded with human associations from very early times. For as long as I can remember I’ve liked quartz. Quartz has a way of being energetically still and this characteristic I also find in myself. With quartz being a familiar conduit I’m able to express human influences in conjunction with nature. Most relationships people have had with quartz have been benevolent. This fact is what I consider a shared foundation. When making sculpture I know any one of us could have picked up the same stone.
And Sometimes I’ll use other materials too!
Some words on my Sumi paintings and the prints from them.
When I sit down to make these sumi I’m slowly going somewhere. Eventually arriving somewhere other than where I’m sitting. I don’t have any formal training in Japanese Sumi technique. I paint in whatever way achieves the best results.
The paper is 100% acid free as well as the prints. Some of the tools are made from reeds and grasses from our garden. Many sizes of brushes, rags, and pre mixed tones of sumi in small dishes are used all the time.
The prints are made on 100% acid free paper. They are scanned and printed in color as to bring out all the tonal variations that sumi offers. They are printed in a limited edition of 12. I think of the original sumi paintings in the way a photographer thinks of their negatives.
For me the places we can go to in our imagination are as real as any on the planet. I’m just presenting to you all the places I’ve been. I hope you enjoy the journey.
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If you would like to contact me: 475 235 7704
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or email me: bobkeating2@yahoo.com