Heather Keton has been painting since childhood, when she was gifted a class in landscape oil painting and realized that combining birch trees and fireworks makes people uncomfortable. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused on writing, bookmaking and lithography. Her return to painting began as a break from her typewriter 17 years ago. She has since exhibited in Chicago, Portland OR, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn.
Keton's compositions are hinged on individually limited palettes using contrast as the catalyst. All of the paintings are large squares or rectangles and all are painted with oil and galkyd using knives and brushes.
What starts out as experimental color mixing soon scaffolds into a purer enjoyment of active painting. A day’s opportunity to work provides an unavoidable limit to the amount of transformation one can achieve with blank surface. Daily life abbreviates and augments art making. Color awareness is inspired and affected by external forces - weather, light, season - as well as personal and internal mood and human experience.
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