Keith Mayerson in Conversation
at Rizzoli Bookstore, New York
Friday February 10, 2023 at 6 pm
Rizzoli Bookstore
1133 Broadway
New York, NY 10010
Join artist’s Thomas Woodruff and Keith Mayerson to discuss Woodruff’s new book Francis Rothbart!: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral and Mayerson ‘s latest publication My American Dream.
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Keith Mayerson Book Launch and Exhibition
at Karma Bookstore, New York
Saturday December 10, 2022, 3–6pm
Karma Bookstore
136 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
In honor of our latest publication, Keith Mayerson, My American Dream, we are pleased to invite you to the book launch and exhibition at Karma Bookstore this Saturday December 10, from 3–6pm.
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Photo Credit: Bob Perkoski Copyright: ©2017
Keith Mayerson Artist Talk
The Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:00 pm via Zoom
Keith Mayerson (b. 1966, Cincinnati, OH) is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture, and depicts familiar figures who have impacted the country’s consciousness, in addition to personal scenes and his abstract “iconscapes.” His work allegorizes themes of resilience, determination, and the “American dream.” Iconic images, heroes, places, and events are rendered luminous and transcendent through Mayerson’s micro-managed brushwork and coloring. His subjects are often selected for their backstories and cultural impact; in Mayerson’s paintings, they embody contemporary national feelings and sentiments. While his formal features hint at a French Impressionist influence, his images could be seen to recall the work of Symbolists in their spiritual components, cultural commentary, and review, in addition to being inspired by the more visionary aspects of American Modernists and the Old Masters.
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Keith Mayerson in The New Social Environment #465 “My American Dream: Keith Mayerson”
January 4, 2022 at 1pm ET
Artist Keith Mayerson joins Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Caroline Crumpacker.
Sponsored by Karma and produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
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Keith Mayerson, Me in the Proust Room for our 40th birthday, oil on linen, 22 × 30 inches; 55.9 × 76.2 cm
Artist talk: Keith Mayerson
USC Roski School of Art and Design
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 5:00pm EST
Keith Mayerson (b. 1966, Cincinnati, OH) is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture, and depicts familiar figures who have impacted the country’s consciousness, in addition to personal scenes and his abstract “iconscapes”. His work allegorizes themes of resilience, determination, and the “American dream.” Iconic images, heroes, places, and events are rendered luminous and transcendent through Mayerson’s micro-managed brushwork and coloring. His subjects are often selected for their backstories and cultural impact; in Mayerson’s paintings, they embody contemporary national feelings and sentiments. While his formal features hint at a French Impressionist influence, his images could be seen to recall the work of Symbolists, in their spiritual components, cultural commentary and review, in addition to being inspired by the more visionary aspects of American Modernists and the Old Masters. Mayerson’s paintings are informed by his immersion into his subjects. Like a method actor, he listens to albums, biographies, or other audio materials on the figures in question while painting them. The entrenched conceptual investment and consideration behind his practice imparts an earnest, emotive resonance. His exhibitions are often installations of images that create larger narratives. Each work is imbued with allegorical content that relates to the world, yet allows through its formal nuances for the transcendent and sublime. The works stand on their own for form and content, but like a prose poem of images on walls, experienced in context the images as a series, the viewer creates the ultimate meaning for the installations. Since the George W. Bush era, his long running non-linear narrative “My American Dream” has been presented in separate exhibitions as “chapters” and the ongoing series continues through today.
Keith Mayerson studied Semiotics and Studio Art at Brown University and received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Mayerson’s work was prominently featured in the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art with a solo show My American Dream, the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum’s inaugural downtown show, America is Hard to See. His graphic novel Horror Hospital Unplugged, a collaboration with the writer Dennis Cooper, is well known among graphic artists. A graphic novel biography of James Dean is forthcoming, to be published by Fantagraphics, and is editing a book on the outsider cartoonist Frank Johnson, also for Fantagraphics to be published soon.
His recent solo exhibitions include the Elaine de Kooning House Foundation, East Hampton (2019); Marlborough Gallery, New York (2019); and the Bridge, Bridgehampton (2019). He will be having solo exhibitions of painting and drawing at KARMA Gallery NYC, forthcoming this September, 2021. Keith Mayerson’s work is featured in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Columbus Museum of Art, The Davis Museum of Art of Wellesley College, MA, American University Museum, Washington, D.C., the RISD Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
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