www.davidbsmithgallery.com/exhibit/show/josh-keyes

Josh Keyes: Collision
November 5 – December 11, 2010
Opening Reception: November 5, 7pm – 10pm
Free and open to the Public. Artist in Attendance.

DENVER – The David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Josh Keyes new solo exhibition, Collision.
Keyes is a widely collected, highly regarded artist with a strong national and international following. He is well known for
his technical craftsmanship, juxtaposition of real and surreal elements, and sharp commentary on the challenging issues
of our time.

This exhibition will be on display from November 5 through December 11, with an opening on November 5 from 7pm to
10pm with the artist. Caleb Neelon has written an essay to accompany this show.

Collision explores the concept of transformation, and has both personal significance for the artist as well as global
meaning and implications. Transformation – as represented by the animals which Keyes paints with such emotion and
realism – could be of a process, cycle, society or civilization, or the transformation of an individual. For Keyes, these
works are an extreme and literal examination of the idea of transformation expressed through his personal iconography
and imagery, and enhanced by artistic expertise.

Keyes derived the idea for these works from a sixteenth century alchemical engraving of a sequence of images depicting
the death and resurrection of a king. The alchemist is one who combines different materials, and through a process
involving chemistry and mysticism, orchestrates and transforms. Keyes sees the artist as alchemist – orchestrating and
enhancing a sequence of images in combination with a unique personal aesthetic to form a linear, sequential story. For
this exhibition, Keyes worked on these paintings concurrently, unlike previous bodies of work where each painting was
conceived and completed independently

The 10 paintings in Collision form a story of transformation – each an individual work of art, and yet each connected to
the others. Using his trademark animals and symbols, Keyes focuses on change in the context of natural challenges and
man-made threats, juxtaposing beauty, fear, hope and disaster in a kaleidoscope pattern which challenges the viewer to
search the painting and develop his/her own interpretation and understanding. Keyes has included his largest painting to
date, Sowers, 40” by 120” in this exhibition. Collision, however, is just the first installment – the first chapter in an
ongoing story. We have much to look forward to.

wow, fantastic. Sure wish it was something I could go to...

Been looking forward to this for months... !

never heard of him, is he any good?

What do you think Bram. You'd have known by now. I'd be borrowing some money!

I used to think that, not sure now.

I got "the" email. It confirmed that I was on the list. Sweeeeet!

Spoiler alert..... link contains 7 of the 'stroy-board' images.

hifructose.com/the-blog/1010-josh-keyes-collision.html

Looks like this is the next Keyes print:



signed, numbered, and titled edition of 350. The size will be a robust 16 x 48 inches.

arrestedmotion.com/2010/11/releases-josh-keyes-sowers-print/

this one looks great, hopefully not too expensive...

I do like this, but there are a lot of really nice pieces in this show that would've made much better prints IMO.

I wonder if this one was chosen as a print partly due to it's size....it'd be an expensive custom frame job, and one that's likely to put off anyone who'd normally pop these in an ikea frame.

I'm sure it'll sell out, but curious how the flippers will go with this given the market for it might not be as huge as it was for Last Kiss.

"Throne"

he is indeed- like that one too spenie

Never has the word talent on this board been used in the correct manner. Bram as we both know JK is off the scale.