July 11 – August 5, 2022

Joseph Keiffer

Artist Reception: Wednesday, July 20, 5pm–7pm

“After a day sketching, I am often dismayed to find the most beautiful sight of the day happens during the last hours. My painting of Sundown was one of those moments. Beauty is often unexpected.” — Joseph Keiffer

“What compels us to look and look again? When we discover art we’re unable to resist, what about it draws us? What within us is responding? I’ve asked myself these questions through the twenty years that I’ve been looking at and being taught to look by Joseph Keiffer’s paintings. . . . After you’ve looked long at Keiffer’s paintings, a strange thing will happen, or at least it has to me. In a familiar room, you’ll find you’re appreciating a corner, its angles and odd charm. And standing outdoors at twilight, picking out the deepening hues of foliage and sky, you’ll discover you’re awake in a world waiting to be perceived.” — Lynne Barrett, author and longtime Joseph Keiffer collector

“Every painter must choose—or be chosen by—a subject. As they walk through this world, certain objects and images appeal to their senses. They strive to convey these sensations by way of pigments, offering us their findings. Joseph Keiffer presents places and objects that have caught his eye—and which in turn catch ours. He offers landscapes and still lifes; he paints both fireworks and a lamp-lit room. He is a stylist, but without overdoing it. His work sometimes has the feel of certain nineteenth-century artists, yet he brings his own sensibility to bear on each canvas.” — Carl Little, poet and author of numerous montages on Maine artists

“For those who have followed Joseph Keiffer’s career, his landscapes, interiors, and still lifes are a perpetual source of delight and surprise. Each presents its own challenge, yet all encapsulate our shared visions of life and nature in the modern world.” —Jonathan Harding, Curator at the Century Association, an arts and letter organization