Anna Patricia Keller

My paintings are inspired by nature and usually incorporate personal imagery and marks, often taken from the sketchbook/journals that I bring with me on my treks into the trails near my home/studio. I fill these journals with my impressions... drawings, descriptions, unintended markings, ephemera found along the way, as well as bits of thought, music or poetry that I encounter during my day. The more autobiographical elements become part of the paintings I call "Narratives", while others add depth and texture to my more minimal, landscape-based abstraction works.
The mountain trails and vistas, flowing rivers, dramatic skies, open prairie lands, canyons, and tumultuous weather that I experience now, as well as my memories of living in the high desert of New Mexico and growing up near the sea, all inspire me, in both series' of work. A recent move to a less rural area has led to explorations of urban textures, colors and shapes as inspirations in my work, too. I use oil paint, cold wax medium, found materials and a variety of media such as natural pigments, ink, acrylic, graphite, oil stick and charcoal in my work. Recently I've returned to incorporating collage and drawing into my work and I'm excited about the results.

BA (Highest Honors) Fine Art Studio, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA;
Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI, Art History Studies
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Painting and Illustration

July 2024, Cold Wax International: A Juried Exhibition, coldwaxacademy.com, juror Dan Addington, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

January 2021, Viral Collaboration, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

March 2017 Invitational Exhibition, Symphony in the Flint Hills Gallery, Cottonwood, Kansas

March 2012 "Prairie's Edge" Solo Exhibition, The Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs, Matfield Green, KS

May 2012 "Transcribed Natures" Invitational/Group, Commerce Street Lofts, Wichita, KS

November 2011, "Atmospheric 3", 3 Person Exhibition, La Tienda Exhibition Space, Santa Fe, NM

May 2006 "New Artists", Tucker Woods Fine Art,
Santa Fe, NM

December 2003 "Invitational", Coleman Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

April 2003 "Originals, Traces of the Journey", Catalogued, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

February 2003 "Contemporary Art", The Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM

March 1999. "Art Riot", Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido, CA

August 1998 "Award Finalists" 4 person Exhibition, first finalist, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA

August 1998 "Local Color", Catalogued, Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido, CA

June 1998 "Land and Sea" Group, Escondido Gallery, Escondido, CA

May 1996, "Shelter" Solo Exhibition, ...