Caitlin Keogh Roses 2014

Eschewing academic distinctions between the fine and applied arts, Caitlin Keogh produces finely detailed paintings and drawings of textile patterns and fashion accessories, unabashedly reveling in the beauty and technique of designing, making, and wearing clothing. Her interest in drawing and painting developed synonymously with learning to sew and loving fabrics, citing Cecil Beaton’s controversial photographs of models posing in front of Jackson Pollock paintings (published in Vogue, March 1951) as affirming, boundary-breaking influences on her own work.
She sources the patterns for her paintings, which mimic swatches of woven or printed fabric, from scraps of cloth and images in books and online. In her detailed, colored pencil on paper drawings, Keogh concentrates on such fashion accessories as shoes and scarves, depicting them with a wit and playfulness that hints at their fetishistic status.

Her paintings were recently included in New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA. In 2021, Keogh completed a mural in the city of Holbaek, Denmark in conjunction with Holbaek Art. Keogh participated in Art Basel Parcours 2019, Basel, Switzerland, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Melas Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece; and MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. She has also exhibited at MoMA Warsaw, Poland; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany; the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, and the Queens Museum, Queens, NY. Her work is represented in the collections of
the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul, and the Rollins Museum of Art in Winter Park, Florida.