TOM KEOUGH

Tom Keough lives and works in New York City. For nearly twenty years has focused on painting urban and country landscapes at night. In Keough’s paintings, his personal view of New York and its environs after dark presents an unseen perspective, unique and often mysteriously empty. The works invite viewers to experience the urban community and the landscapes beyond it with a vision that is both familiar and strange.

Tom Keough’s night paintings impart a sense of urban alienation and solitude. Capturing quiet, empty streets, dark alleys and overlooked corners of our urban environment, he uses light and weather changes to alter the familiar. Comfortable neighborhood landscapes, transformed by artificial light when darkness descends, take on new life. As snow falls, perceptions change, providing an altered – and usually unseen – perspective momentarily frozen in time and devoid of activity.

Highlighting the after-dark relationships created by man-made light and its effect on the landscape, creating an arresting vision unlike any seen in daylight. Far from the city, trees growing deep in the forests of the Catskill Mountains offer a striking contrast to Keough’s unique perspective on altered urban environments.

Tom Keough’s work has been widely collected and shown, including exhibitions and installations at the National Arts Club, Theatre for the New City, US Capital, US Senate, Gallery Bielefeld (Germany), Moenchehaus Museum (Germany), Riverside Cathedral, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Saint Peter’s Church, Citicorp Center, Donnell Library, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, New York Life Insurance Company, Brooklyn Hospital, Carnegie Museum, US Embassy (Jamaica), Place/Kayenberg Design Studio Hamburg (Germany), United Nations Headquarters (NY), and the Museum of Modern Art (NY).

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