untitled

Steve Keister

born 1949

untitled, 1990

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: string; rubber; wood; Masonite™; paint

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 20.32 x 25.4 x 17.78 cm not including string
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 8 x 10 x 7 in

Credit line: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Accession number: 2009.0053

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Exhibition Label: "NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns Steve Keister, a sculptor and ceramicist, makes works that often take the shape of biomorphic forms. “Someone once described my work as formalist abstraction with an escape hatch built in. In my early work the escape hatch was a suggestive association with science fiction (flying saucers) and rock & roll (new wave).” This sculpture reflects the artist’s formalist preference for fluid, undulating contours and shapes.