Gary Michael Keyes

These works, 'Objects of Wonder' ~ Still Life in the Age of Illusion ~ are inspired by our culture, its endless illusions and bountiful senselessness which has created, with all of its many intellectually unsolvable questions, its very own, real life, koan, says just about everything about me. I'm captivated by the activity within stillness and I do favor a riddle. My current favorite is this one ~ "If an illusion were to see its reflection, would it recognize itself?"

Martinett School of Art - Baltimore, MD 1967 - 68

Maryland Institute College of Art 1971 - 76 - BFA

Observing life and taking in as many lessons as I possibly can.

ArtScape - Maryland Institute College of Art 1982
‘Light Deceptions’ & ‘Light Deception2’

Group Show - Sylvia Cordish Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1986
‘Light Deceptions’ a series of prints

Maryland Biennial - Baltimore Museum of Art 1986
‘Messenger - 2‘ mixed medium on canvas

Group Show - Sylvia Cordish Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1987
Five paintings from ‘Redder Everyday’

One Person Show - ‘Barn Storm’ - Andor Farm
35 works in Monkton, MD 1988

Group Show - ‘Dialogues of Friendship’ - Minor Injuries, Brooklyn, NY
Curator Soo-Ok Kim 1991

One Person Show - Emerging Collector Gallery New York, NY 1991
‘Emotional Distortions of Perception’

Group Show - Fresh Air Gallery Berryville, VA ‘Royal Living Mask’ - 2002

Group Show - Fresh Air Gallery Berryville, VA ‘Euforacon’ Sculpture - 2003

One Person Show as part of a Group Show - Chroma Projects
Charlottesville, VA - thirteen ‘Objects of Wonder’ - 2011

Group Show - Washington Project for the Arts- Art Night at Hickok Cole
Washington, DC - 'Objects of Wonder' - 2013

Flow By the River - 'Slurp' 2018 - Charlottesville, Va