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The work of Keith Allyn Spencer is like a cartoon of painting: playful, off-kilter, and deliberately unserious in its seriousness. Negotiating new relationships between material and environment, Allyn resists technical precision and predictable processes, instead favoring moves that feel absurd or unresolved. Painting serves as a launch point for a broader practice that includes installation and disruption. His work seeks to destabilize painting, approaching it not only as image, but as sculpture, entertainment, therapy, protest, prank, or decoration. Spencer’s painting is often non-painting: a gesture that questions its own medium, its context, and its need to be anything more than what it already is. But, while these gestures are rooted in painterly inquiry, they are equally shaped by the visual logic of his upbringing along the U.S./Mexico border, the rituals of suburban maintenance, and the quiet politics of humor, color, and care.
Born and raised in the Chihuahuan desert of West Texas, Keith currently resides with his family in central Ohio where he is an Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts at Denison University. He received his MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2011) and a BFA from the University of Texas at El Paso (2003). Recent group exhibitions consist of Terrain Exhibitions (Chicago), SideBitch Projects (Los Angeles), New Galerie at Yves Klein Archives (Paris), No Place Gallery (Columbus), and BigMedium (Austin). Recent solo shows include Fringe Projects (Miami), Ditch Projects (Oregon), The Composing Rooms (Berlin), Welcome Screen (London), OFG.XXX (Dallas), Target (Indiana), and Domino’s Pizza (Rhode Island).
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