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Philip Van Keuren: Elegy
Academic Year:
2025-26
Date(s):
Thursday, August 21 to Saturday, October 18, 2025
Location:
The Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries
Philip Van Keuren: Elegy
Video + Copperplate Photogravures + Silver Gelatin Prints
Artist: Philip Van Keuren
Curator: Stefan Chinov, Professor, Wright State University
"Although each work stands on its own the entire body of images (these and ones still to be made) is considered one work of art. In these works I gather seemingly ordinary, but disparate, visual, cultural, and historical entities in order to illuminate and amplify their equivalent active, numinous, poetic, and emotional qualities. In emphasizing an empirical observation of the world in much the same manner as the earliest photographers my intention is to make new works emphatically of my time while remaining mindful of photography's earliest thinking about itself as a medium
of ordinary aspirations with magical results made by operators." – Philp Van Keuren
Philip Van Keuren is currently a Professor of art in the Division of Art, Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, having taught courses in a variety of mediums since 1989.
Related programming:
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Artist Talk and Opening Reception: 6 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public
Regular gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-4pm
Image Credit: Sconce (Roma), 2023, Silver Gelatin Print
