Allyson Keehan

ALLYSON KEEHAN explores the parameters and boundaries imposed by conventional painting practices by examining materiality and structure. Drapery exposes relationships, tensions, spaces, and forms, functioning as a transition within the liminal space of her work. Conceptually, the work is a catalyst for Keehan’s personal beliefs and experiences of female desire and womanhood. Female desire is generative and productive, abundant and generous. Drapery, in these instances, becomes a metaphor for the body, a skin-like organ that stretches, folds, and creases. It can retain beauty when active and likewise fade with age. By painting the fabric in these states she captures her experiences within it.