Jayson Keeling

Jayson Keeling (1966-2022){{Cite news|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/jayson-keeling?all/all/all/all/0|title=Jayson Keeling|date=2016-03-02|work=International Center of Photography|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en}} was an artist who worked in photography, video, sculpture, and installation.{{cite web|url=http://africanah.org/jayson-keeling/|title=Jayson Keeling|website=AFRICANAH.ORG|publisher=AFRICANAH.ORG|accessdate=25 March 2018}} Keeling's work challenges conventional norms surrounding sex, gender, race, and religion. Keeling often reconfigured popular iconography, to explore notions of masculinity, and cultural ritual.{{cite web|title=Jayson Keeling|url=https://www.artspace.com/artist/jayson-keeling|website=Artspace|accessdate=25 March 2018}}

Early life and education

Jayson Keeling was born in 1966 in Brooklyn, NY to Jamaican parents. Keeling's grew up between Jamaica and the Bronx, New York.{{Cite web|url=http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2011/10/jayson-keelings-see-jungle-see-jungle-go-join-your-gang-yeah-city-all-over-go-ape-crazy/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072343/http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2011/10/jayson-keelings-see-jungle-see-jungle-go-join-your-gang-yeah-city-all-over-go-ape-crazy/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 10, 2018|title=Jayson Keeling's See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy|last=ARC|website=arcthemagazine.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-09}} His bi-cultural upbringing would later influence his work. Keeling graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1986 with an AA in Fashion Illustration and Art History. Keeling started off by working as a photographer and film director in fashion, music, film, and the pornography industry.{{Cite web|url=http://blackartistnews.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-york-jayson-keeling-in-conversation.html|title=NEW YORK: Jayson Keeling in Conversation|last=|first=|date=1 December 2011|website=Black Artist News|access-date=28 March 2018}}

Art

Jayson Keeling mines popular culture, and mythology to create artworks that question and deconstruct accepted politics of sex, gender, race, and religion. Keeling works in photography, video, sculpture, and installation.

His work often pulls from different visual cultures and then "jams them all into the same frame." Keeling often works in the realms in-between cultures, creating work that is "neither here nor there." He often uses performative gestures to explore ritual and masculinity.

Jayson Keeling's photographs have been described as violent, sexy, glam and grotesque.

A work by Keeling, a diptych of photographs of legendary dancer and choreographer, Willi Ninja, exhibited at the 2008 "The B Sides" show at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art was described by art critic Benjamin Genocchio as "one of the show's most arresting exhibits" in The New York Times.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/new-jersey/28artsnj.html|title=The House Party Spirit in All Its Glory|last=Benjamin Genocchio|date=December 26, 2008|work=The New York Times|accessdate=28 March 2018}}

Selected exhibitions

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2014

  • Aljira at 30: Dream and Reality, New Jersey State Museum{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/nyregion/utopian-vision-born-of-a-harsh-truth.html|title=Utopian Vision Born of a Harsh Truth|date=2014-04-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=http://aljira.org/past-exhibitions/aljira-at-30-dream-and-reality/|title=Aljira at 30, Dream and Reality « Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art|website=aljira.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-09}}
  • The First Sweet Music at John and June Allcott Gallery
  • TEN at Cindy Rucker Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/3941-jayson-keeling?tab=EXHIBITS|title=Jayson Keeling - Exhibition|website=ArtSlant|accessdate=28 March 2018|archive-date=29 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329055401/https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/3941-jayson-keeling?tab=EXHIBITS|url-status=dead}}

2013

  • Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Curated by Jayson Keeling at the Lower East Side Printshop.
  • Another New York at Barclays Center
  • Psychosexual at Andrew Rafacz Gallery

2012

2011

  • Nov 2011 - Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds at LegalArt
  • See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy. at Third Streaming{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/jayson-keeling-see-jungle-see-jungle-go-join-your-gang-yeah-city-all-over-go-ape-crazy-third-streaming-december-28-2011|title=Jayson Keeling, "See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy"|website=TimeOut|accessdate=28 March 2018|archive-date=29 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329122337/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/jayson-keeling-see-jungle-see-jungle-go-join-your-gang-yeah-city-all-over-go-ape-crazy-third-streaming-december-28-2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/go-wild-with-jayson-keeling_n_1292243.html|title=Go Wild With Jayson Keeling’s Exhibition "See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy"|date=February 22, 2012|work=The Huffington Post|accessdate=28 March 2018}}
  • Seoul Food: apexart Outbound Residents Talk Shop at Apexart

2010

  • Automatic For The People: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
  • Bite:Street-inspired Art & Fashion at 3rd Streaming Gallery - 10 Green Street, 2nd FL
  • Chapter Four: Let It Die at Lehmann Maupin - Chrystie Street
  • Lush Life, Chapter Eight: 17 Plus 25 Is 32 at Scaramouche
  • Lush Life at Collette Blanchard Gallery
  • LUSH LIFE: WHISTLE at Sue Scott Gallery
  • Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2010 Art as Action at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
  • CONVERSIONs | one-night stands at BronxArtSpace

2009

  • Rockstone & Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art at Real Art Ways
  • 99 44/100% Pure at Real Art Ways
  • Everyman's an Angel at NY Studio Gallery
  • PULSE at Taller Boricua Galleries at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center
  • resident/alien at Apexart
  • Queens International 4 at Queens Museum of Art
  • Perception As Object at Monya Rowe Gallery

2008

  • VIDEOSTUDIO at Studio Museum in Harlem{{Cite web|url=https://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/videostudio|title=The Studio Museum in Harlem|website=www.studiomuseum.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-09}}
  • "Red badge of courage revisited" at Newark Arts Council,
  • Strangers at Privateer
  • “Homecoming” at ABC NO RIO
  • Summer Mixed Tape Volume 1: the Get Smart Edition at Exit Art
  • Intransit at Moti Hasson
  • DEADLIEST CATCH: Hamptons at CORE : Hamptons

2007

  • Sex in the City at The DUMBO Arts Center (DAC)
  • The Wu-Tang / googolplex Show (Congress) at GBE@passerby
  • Six Degrees of Separation at Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art
  • AIM27 “Here and Elsewhere” at Bronx Museum of the Arts

References

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