Kerlin Gallery

William McKeown Untitled, 2009 - 2011 oil on linen 18.9 x 18.9 in

AVAILABLE $35,000.00

In the 16 years since William McKeown first exhibited at to the time of his death in 2011, he developed a body of work that has had a radical and fundamental effect on our understanding of the age-old relationship of art to nature. The foundation of his work and life was his belief in the primacy of feeling. His paintings took on the guise of objective minimalism and the monochrome, but presented us with so much more; nature as something real, tangible, all around us, to be touched and felt. He steered our attention not to the distant sky but to the air around us, the openness of nature, the feeling of our emergence into light and our proximity to the infinite. Through subtle gradation of tone and a highly refined use of colour McKeown created moments of exquisite beauty and bliss.

About the Artist: William McKeown b.1962, Tyrone, Northern , d.2011 Edinburgh, Scotland

McKeown’s work is represented in the collection of Dallas Museum of Art, where his solo exhibition ‘Dayroom’ was also shown in 2016. Selected exhibitions include Chance Encounters II, LOEWE Miami Design District, curated by Jonathan Anderson (2016-2017); Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2016); Dallas Museum of Art, USA, (Group, 2016); Royal Hibernian Academy, (2015); Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane (2011); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2008) and , Dublin (2004, 2001). In 2005, McKeown represented Northern Ireland in the 51st Venice Biennale.

McKeown’s work is also represented in the collections of National Gallery of Ireland; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane; The Museum, among others.