Modern Fine Art is pleased to present an online gallery exhibition by Alessandro Keegan. Keegan (b. 1980) is a visual artist, writer, and professor living and working in upstate, NY. He holds a MFA in painting and drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and also an MA in art history from Brooklyn College. His oil paintings are windows into psychological realms made of surreal landscapes brought to life by unexpected color palettes.

From a postmodern perspective, Keegan considers his work as abstraction oscillating between representational and abstract like Expressionists and Surrealists of the early 20th century. His affinity for transcendentalist painters and his love for mysticism imbue his paintings with metaphysical narratives. He explores a 'mystical science' through the use of surreal landscapes and materials resembling dew drops and glass vessels that interact with the light rays in diagrammatic compositions. His compositions emerge from his subconscious in almost complete form, which he quickly captures in sketches. He then turns to color, combining pigments that have a synesthetic effect for Keegan, who says certain pairings have tastes: magenta and yellow, for instance, taste like marzipan. Keegan has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, London, Dublin, Barcelona, and The Hague. Writings about his work have appeared in Artforum, Elephant Magazine, Masthead Magazine and Ephemera NYC as well as journals such as Helvete (Punctum Books, Brooklyn) and J’ai Froid (Castillo/Corrales, Paris). Keegan’s art practice featured in a 2020 documentary called “The Matter of Mind” by Full Moon Films. In 2022 he exhibited at Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong with guest curator Zoie Yung. He was featured in the Art Macau: Macao International Art Biennale 2023 curated by Qiu Zhijie. In 2024 Keegan exhibited in Untitled Void Gallery, Seoul, South Korea and in “Fruit and Fruition” curated by Angela Heisch at Grimm Gallery, New York, NY.