Keith Boadwee (b. 1961, Meridian, Mississippi; USA) first began working with performance documentary and photography in the late 1980s. After taking a teaching position as a professor at the California College of Arts and later the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 2000s, Boadwee initiated a collaborative painting practice with colleagues and students, working together to make paintings under the group name “Club Paint”.
Eventually transitioning away from this collective approach to art-making, the artist established a solo studio painting practice in the 2010s. Boadwee’s paintings often combine the aesthetics of cartoon humour with a reflective and self-searching sensibility. His work is often concerned with the psychology of domesticity and an interest in the relationship between geometric forms and spirituality.
Boadwee has exhibited extensively between Los Angeles, New York and Europe. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and has been included in exhibitions at the The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (as part of a two-person exhibition alongside Nicole Eisenman).
Eventually transitioning away from this collective approach to art-making, the artist established a solo studio painting practice in the 2010s. Boadwee’s paintings often combine the aesthetics of cartoon humour with a reflective and self-searching sensibility. His work is often concerned with the psychology of domesticity and an interest in the relationship between geometric forms and spirituality.
Boadwee has exhibited extensively between Los Angeles, New York and Europe. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and has been included in exhibitions at the The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (as part of a two-person exhibition alongside Nicole Eisenman).