Artist: Robert Keith | Location: Columbia, SC
Simply complete the form, and be sure to include your mobile number so you can vote via text. To activate your votes, check in at the Welcome Center at (132 North Acline Street), TRAX Visual Art Center, Jones-Carter Gallery, or The ROB during the festival.
Artist: Robert Keith | Location: Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC
Robert O. Keith IV is a native Coloradan, now happily residing in Columbia, SC. He received a BFA at Colorado State University and an MFA at the University of South Carolina. He and his wife Meagan travel around the East Coast searching for abandoned spaces to fill both an artistic need as well as the thrill of exploring.
Art was an escape for Robert as a child. The poor conditions in which he was raised mirror so many of the abandoned structures shown in his work. His rough upbringing gave him an intensely unique perspective on life, allowing him to find the beauty and the positive light in what others might find ugly or impossible to endure.
In his current work, Robert explores the reclamation of abandoned architectural spaces by nature. He documents the journey of exploration via oil paintings. Robert also experiments with the bending of his canvases to literally surround the viewer within the spaces themselves.