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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Bermuda Sunset, Sarah B. Fagan
Molly, Terry Ann Hayes
Unfinished Business, Marilyn S. Springer
David, Brian P. Menna
Skeleton, Luis Alberto Ruiz Quintero
Makenzie Seiple, Makenzie M. Seiple
Jazz Club, Jennifer M. Kuzmik
Lemons, Erica J. Wiles
The Old Familiar Sting, Jaimie N. Schock
Jasmine, Makenzie M. Seiple
Face 2, Geoffrey D. Gaenslen
Bright Lights On Quiet Streets: Tom Keough’S Nocturnes, Shannon Egan
Bright Lights On Quiet Streets: Tom Keough’S Nocturnes, Shannon Egan
Art and Art History Faculty Publications
The well-kept city streets lined with trees and old brownstones may seem familiar in the paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Tom Keough, but the neighborhood is disquietingly empty. Keough situates the sidewalk in the immediate foreground of his paintings and compels the viewer to enter into an eerily vacant scene. With few exceptions, Keough leaves the always still and sometimes snowy New York setting largely unoccupied. Nonetheless, Keough conveys human presence in his paintings with the soft glow of lamplight from windows, footprints in the snow, and cars parked along the side. The theme of urban alienation—a paradoxical sense of loneliness …