Drawings and Paintings

Caitlin Keogh's colored-pencil rose drawings and grid-based Matrix paintings exploring labor, visibility, and matrixial space through historical postcards and layered gazes.

Why go

Keogh's Matrix paintings embed found postcards of Courbet and Raphael directly into canvas, activating what the exhibition frames as matrixial space—a psychic dimension prior to language. The rose drawings, stripped of color and rendered in imperative line, anchor the show's meditation on how invisibility and corporeality figure into artistic labor

What to expect

Colored-pencil rose drawings from plein-air work in Portland, alongside large-scale Matrix paintings that layer canvas weave, historical postcards, and black-and-white paint. Key works include Beige Matrix, Woman With Opera Glasses (featuring a Degas sketch painted directly onto canvas) and Ultramarine Matrix, La Fornarina, which activate historica

Things to know

• Artist born 1982 in Anchorage, Alaska; currently based in New York.
• Work held in collections at Whitney Museum of American Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and MoMA Warsaw.
• Rose drawings created en plein air in Portland, Oregon, using colored pencil and later black-and-white paint.
• Matrix paintings reference Bracha Ettinger's concept of matrixial space and engage with Courbet's Les Cribleuses de Blé and Raphael's La For
• Exhibition text by Kathleen Del Mar Miller, writer and psychoanalyst; co-founder of PINKBEAM art space in Brooklyn.
• Solo exhibitions include MoMA PS1, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, and Melas Papadopoulos, Athens.

Plan your visit

Open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 AM–6 PM, and by appointment. Located at The Upstairs at 39 Walker Street, New York.