Mayce Keeler
[Image description: Mayce, a person with white skin and short brown hair, sits smiling in front of one of their paintings.]
Recognizable for their stage-like appearance, Mayce Keeler’s allegorical works lean into narratives of their own symbolic mythos. Evolving from religious paintings dealing with sexuality, the images crawl from their primordial soup into themes of masculinity, femininity, and fertility. By the juxtaposition of beasts as wholly themselves against a chimera of human and animal characteristics, a dichotomy emerges that underlines the lizard brain driving bodily (and existential) ardor and trepidation. Recurring characters experience sentiments of love and loss, transformation, and divine encounters. Tensions found within form an interplay between subjective good vs evil, and are repeatedly a source of violence.
Mayce Keeler is based in San Diego and graduated from the University of San Diego in 2018 with a Bachelor Art in Visual Arts with an emphasis in painting and printmaking.
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