The art of Keith Allyn Spencer is like a cartoon of painting. To undermine any obvious technical abilities, processes, or rationale, Allyn prefers to consider painting as sculpture, entertainment as therapy, pranks as protests, art as decoration, and even drawings as non-drawings. For Spencer, art making incites a broader creative practice to activating and toying with his environments. 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 of Visual Art 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 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).
Keith Spencer is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Family Law. That Board Certification mark of excellence and distinguished accomplishment is attained by only one in ten Texas attorneys, and indicates that Keith has substantial, relevant experience and has demonstrated the same in family law cases.
Coach Keith Spencer was raised in San Diego, California where he began playing basketball at the age of 4. He was ranked amongst the top players in the state c/o 2003, receiving a McDonald’s All-American Nomination. Coach Keith received a full athletic scholarship to the University of Texas-San Antonio(UTSA), where he contributed to charging the dynamics of the roadrunner basketball program.
Keith Spencer is a land/investment sales specialist servicing the Las Vegas regional market since 1985. Keith is a First Vice President representing the Las Vegas Land Services Group where he specializes in multifamily, mixed-use, residential lots, redevelopment land, bank owned and specialty land opportunities.
Keith Spencer is a visual artist and translator from New Mexico. In 2009 he was named a goodwill ambassador for Fukushima prefecture, Japan and in 2016 received The Mary Koga Memorial Grant from the Japan America Society of Chicago. Keith was a 2019 Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching Fellow, and a participating artist in Overworld, a 2020 online exhibition organized by the Japan Foundation in Mexico. He currently lives in Kyoto.
Keith’s natural drawing abilities were evident at a very early age. By the time he reached his teen years he was doing commissioned portraiture and after earning a BFA from Berry College in GA, he began a quest to explore his creativity beyond purely representational imagery. In 1992 he accepted a position as Creative Graphic Artist for Umbro USA and moved to the upstate. He formed Keith Spencer Studio in 1996 and his clients included Reebok, Champion, Kappa, Immaculate Baking Company and Harley Davidson among many others.
Keith has pursued his love of the stage and concert performance nationally and in many Philadelphia-local professional venues including Bristol Riverside Theatre, Act II Playhouse, The Prince Music Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre, and The Broadway Theatre of Pitman, and Parx Casino with the Summer Club Big Band. National tour highlights include the Broadway Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Music of the Night with Betty Buckley and Melissa Manchester. Favorite roles include Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Ragtime); Joe (Show Boat); The Abolitionist (For the Glory: The Civil War Musical); Leading Player (Pippin); Sky Masterson (Guys and Dolls); Billy (Carousel), and Audrey II (The Little Shop of Horrors).
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