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).
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