Erin O’Keefe presents the viewer with images of simple geometric shapes in rich colours, painted objects accentuated by precise lighting and shadows. Paint is roughly applied and her hand is legible in textured brush marks. The compositions initially resist and tease the viewer – the scale of the objects is uncertain and flatness and depth appear unreliable. The pleasure of colour and shadow are used against the viewer, in a series of perceptual games played with brush and camera. The image enclosed in the glazed frame is an arranged tableau of painted wooden shapes, photographed to form perceptually impossible objects, the monocular vision of the camera collapsing space.

Recent group exhibitions include AND/ALSO: Photography (Mis)represented at Kasmin Gallery, New York in 2020; Joy before the object at Seventeen in 2019. Solo exhibitions include Certain Things at Seventeen in 2020, a solo presentation at Frieze London 2021 and Nonfiction Seventeen in 2023; and I saw the man with a telescope at Sargent’s Daughters, 2024.

 

Biography

Erin Okeefe CV

Seventeen Exhibitions

A Whole Thing
Nonfiction
Certain Things
Frieze London
Joy Before The Object

 

Press

New York Times by Will Heinrich
New Yorker review of “Big Nothing” at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
New Yorker review of “Things As They Are” at the Denny Gallery
Financial Times  by Kate Greenberg
The Paris Review by Kate Tarker
Art Forum review by Emily LaBarge
Frieze by Lola Kramer
Art Forum by Jeff Gibson
Uncertain Things – Catalogue with text by Richard Paul
Artforum review of “Book of Days” at Denny Gallery print edition Summer 201
Brooklyn Rail by Hearne Pardee
Hyperallergic review of Silver Projects at Bushwick Open Studios 2014
Collector Daily review of “Seeing Things” at Denny Dimin Gallery
Musée Magazine by Amy Wei
Village Voice by RC Baker
Selected Press 

Erin O’Keefe, A Whole Thing, 2025

Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
42 × 25 inches

Erin O’Keefe, Wrap Up, 2025
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
18 × 22 inches

Erin O’Keefe, Over the Moon, 2025
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
18 × 22 inches

Erin O’Keefe, All Together, 2025
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
40 × 30 inches

Erin O’Keefe, Softly, Gently, 2025
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
42 × 30 inches

Erin O’Keefe, Nap, 2025
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
18 × 22 inches

Erin O’Keefe, Square Peg, 2025
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
18 × 22 inches

Erin O’Keefe, Fly By, 2025
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Mounted on Dibond aluminium, framed
20 × 25 inches

 

 

Installation view of Nonfiction at Seventeen, 2023

 

Installation view of Certain Things at Seventeen, 2020-21

Erin O’Keefe, Keystone, 2021
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
63.5 x 50.8 cm (25 x 20 inches)

 

Erin O’Keefe, Almost Time, 2022
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
102.87 x 91.44 cm (40.5 x 36 inches)

Erin O’Keefe, All Day Long, 2021
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
81.2 x 101.6 cm (40 x 32 inches)

Erin O’Keefe, Swoon, 2021
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
121.9 x 91.4 cm (48 x 36 inches)

Erin O’Keefe, Extra Extra, 2022
Unique archival pigment print on cotton rag paper mounted to Sintra, framed
101.6 x 76.2cm (40 x 30 inches)

Erin O’Keefe, River, 2020
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
82.8 x 101.6 cm (32 x 40 inches)

Erin O’Keefe, Orange Walking, 2021
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
127 x 101.6 cm (50 x 40 inches)

Erin O’Keefe, Eight Things, 2021
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
82.8 x 103.2 cm (32 x 40 inches)

Installation view of Certain Things at Seventeen, 2020-21

Installation view of Certain Things at Seventeen, 2020-21

Installation view of Certain Things at Seventeen, 2020-21

Installation view of Certain Things at Seventeen, 2020-21

Erin O’Keefe, Rebel Rebel, 2021
Unique archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper mounted to Dibond aluminium
63.5 x 50.8 cm (25 x 20 inches)

Installation view of Joy before the object at Seventeen, 2019

Erin O’Keefe, Orange Slide, 2019
Archival pigment print
101.6 x 81.3 cm (40 x 32 inches)

Erin O’Keefe, Upright Blues, 2019
Archival pigment print
101.6 x 81.3 cm (40 x 32 inches)

Installation view of NEW YORK/NEW WORK at Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam, 2017