Erin O'Keefe

Erin O’Keefe draws viewers into compositions of geometric forms in vivid, saturated colors, where painted objects are carefully lit to cast precise shadows. Her brushwork remains tactile and expressive, leaving visible traces of the artist’s hand and texture within the paint. The arrangements play with perception, creating ambiguity around scale and depth, so that flatness and three-dimensionality appear unstable. O’Keefe exploits the interplay of color, light, and shadow to challenge the viewer’s visual expectations, turning each composition into a subtle perceptual puzzle. By photographing carefully arranged wooden shapes, she constructs scenes that appear physically impossible, collapsing space and perspective through the singular viewpoint of the camera. The result is a dialogue between painting, sculpture, and photography, where tactile materiality and visual illusion intersect. Her work provokes a reconsideration of how we interpret form, depth, and spatial relationships, inviting the audience into a playful yet rigorous exploration of perception. ...