{"id":12585,"date":"2025-08-13T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:44:09","slug":"steve-keister-split-level-at-derek-eller-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/steve-keister-split-level-at-derek-eller-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Keister, &#8216;Split Level&#8217; at Derek Eller Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevekeister.com\">Steve Keister<\/a>\u2019s graphically bold mixed media creations at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derekeller.com\/exhibitions\/steve-keister\">Derek Eller Gallery<\/a> came about with the discovery that Styrofoam and cardboard packaging often come in shapes recalling Mesoamerican design.\u00a0 Using some of these pre-formed shapes as casts, Keister developed plaster molds that would allow him to make sculpture in ceramic slip.\u00a0 In combination with flat and heavily geometric paintings, the sculptural face seen here in \u2018Contrapposto\u2019 is a cultural hybrid, blending influences from Latin American design, western art and Modernism.\u00a0 (On view in Tribeca through Aug 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2559px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/b4a78d1f-26cb-2594-d939-b2dae077a065.jpg\" alt=\"Abstracted, geometric human figure painted with attached sculpture of a head.\" width=\"2559\" height=\"3159\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Keister, Contrapposto, glazed ceramic and acrylic on wood, 30 x 24 x 4 inches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Keister\u2019s graphically bold mixed media creations at Derek Eller Gallery came about with the discovery that Styrofoam and cardboard packaging often come in shapes recalling Mesoamerican design.\u00a0 Using some of these pre-formed shapes as casts, Keister developed plaster molds that would allow him to make sculpture in ceramic slip.\u00a0 In combination with flat and &hellip; 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