Jayson Keeling (1966-2022) [1] was an artist who worked in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. [2] [3] Keeling's work challenges conventional norms surrounding sex, gender, race, and religion. [2] Keeling often reconfigured popular iconography, to explore notions of masculinity, and cultural ritual. [4]
Jayson Keeling was born in 1966 in Brooklyn, NY to Jamaican parents. [5] [3] Keeling's grew up between Jamaica and the Bronx, New York. [6] His bi-cultural upbringing would later influence his work. [6] Keeling graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1986 with an AA in Fashion Illustration and Art History. [4] Keeling started off by working as a photographer and film director in fashion, music, film, and the pornography industry. [2]
Jayson Keeling mines popular culture, and mythology to create artworks that question and deconstruct accepted politics of sex, gender, race, and religion. [4] [3] Keeling works in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. [2] [3]
His work often pulls from different visual cultures and then "jams them all into the same frame." [5] Keeling often works in the realms in-between cultures, creating work that is "neither here nor there." [5] He often uses performative gestures to explore ritual and masculinity. [3]
Jayson Keeling's photographs have been described as violent, sexy, glam and grotesque. [5]
A work by Keeling, a diptych of photographs of legendary dancer and choreographer, Willi Ninja, exhibited at the 2008 "The B Sides" show at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art was described by art critic Benjamin Genocchio as "one of the show's most arresting exhibits" in The New York Times. [7]
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Jayson Keeling (1966-2022) [1] was an artist who worked in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. [2] [3] Keeling's work challenges conventional norms surrounding sex, gender, race, and religion. [2] Keeling often reconfigured popular iconography, to explore notions of masculinity, and cultural ritual. [4]
Jayson Keeling was born in 1966 in Brooklyn, NY to Jamaican parents. [5] [3] Keeling's grew up between Jamaica and the Bronx, New York. [6] His bi-cultural upbringing would later influence his work. [6] Keeling graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1986 with an AA in Fashion Illustration and Art History. [4] Keeling started off by working as a photographer and film director in fashion, music, film, and the pornography industry. [2]
Jayson Keeling mines popular culture, and mythology to create artworks that question and deconstruct accepted politics of sex, gender, race, and religion. [4] [3] Keeling works in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. [2] [3]
His work often pulls from different visual cultures and then "jams them all into the same frame." [5] Keeling often works in the realms in-between cultures, creating work that is "neither here nor there." [5] He often uses performative gestures to explore ritual and masculinity. [3]
Jayson Keeling's photographs have been described as violent, sexy, glam and grotesque. [5]
A work by Keeling, a diptych of photographs of legendary dancer and choreographer, Willi Ninja, exhibited at the 2008 "The B Sides" show at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art was described by art critic Benjamin Genocchio as "one of the show's most arresting exhibits" in The New York Times. [7]
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2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007