Audrey Keeperman

Reality is not a matter of fact, it is an achievement; and it is rare. We live, most of us, amidst lies, deceits, and confusions. A work of art may not utter the truth, but it must be honest...Works of art confront us the way few people dare to: completely, openly, at once.

––Audrey Keeperman, Painter

Renowned abstract expressionist painter Audrey Keeperman creates masterpieces that have an undeniably alluring texture. Drawing inspiration from the famed surrealist work of Chilean painter Roberto Matta, as well as the color play of artists Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mitchell, Keeperman developed her signature style later in life. However, her obsession with color began in early childhood. She recalls escaping to the burnt trash pit outback of her old midwestern farm home, hunting for colorful pieces of glass. Running from the chaos of her dyslexic mind, Keeperman would hold up these shards to the light, enchanted by their shine and glare. 

During her artistic career, Keeperman has briefly played with watercolors before moving on to dichroic glass and then oil paints which allows her a unique textured style of layering. The colored chips of glass from Keeperman’s childhood still infiltrate her work—most noticeably in her “Weaver” series wherein blocks of color tesselate and reflect off of and through one another. In the artist’s own words, these blocks are like “quadrangle playgrounds for the mind”. These seemingly multi-dimensional squares offer a sort of opening, a portal-like effect that transports the viewer. The masterful movement and depth of color in Keeperman’s works offer a whispered comment on transience: Keeperman paints not for fame, but in the search of simple moments of pleasure and self-expression.

Keeperman lives and works in America’s Midwest. Her oil paintings can be found in private collections in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.