Claudia Keep’s small-scale oil paintings of quotidian moments are rooted in the careful act of looking. Her favored subjects—interior and exterior scenes, animals and plant life— are drawn from a personal archive of photographs, forming an ongoing diaristic documentation that preserves observations. Keep trains her eye on fleeting moments: early morning dewdrops on blades of grass, ominous clouds overhead during a moonlit drive, or a caterpillar crawling slowly along a leaf. As the artist notes, “I’m interested in trying to capture a sense of movement because I am trying to paint what it feels like to see something. I think sensation comes with movement or at least a certain suggestion of physicality.”

Parker Gallery will show new paintings by Claudia Keep in a group presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2024. The artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery will open in 2026.

Claudia Keep (b. 1993 in Low Moor, VA) lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BFA from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA. Recent solo exhibitions include Somehow, Somewhere, Someway, Galerie Marguo, Paris, France (2024), In Bed, 12.26, Dallas, TX (2024), Almanac, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023), Aubade, March, New York, NY (2022); Day In, Day Out, Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA (2022); Claudia Keep, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN (2021); and Night Moves, MARCH, New York, NY (2021). Recent group exhibitions include Southern Democratic, The Carnegie, Covington, KY (2024); Une Chambre À Soi, Château Lacoste, Provence, France (2024); Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you, Pangée, Montréal, Canada (2024); This Must Be The Place, TOTAH, New York, NY (2024); CLAIRVOYANCE, SHRINE, New York, NY (2023); Night, light., Cob Gallery, London, UK (2023); and When the Sun Loses Its Light, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (2022).