New York-based artist Kim Keever studied to be an engineer. However, summer internships at NASA working on missile technologies or conducting aerospace research (that’s what they do at NASA, right?) wasn’t his true calling. Instead, Keever became an artist. This was the 1970s, and after nearly two decades of traditional painting, he stumbled upon a style to call his own with the help of a 200-gallon fish tank offered by a friend. His early fish tank series consisted of photographed landscapes submerged in water, which gradually evolved into his latest body of work. Abstract Images is a photographic series which captures paint diffusing in water. More minimalist than his landscape series, Keever drips blobs paint in water and documents the colors and forms which unravel majestically. His hyperrealistic, ethereal tableaus will have you spellbound.
