Resume

Keegan McGee-Moore

29520 Stanley Rd. New Marshfield, Ohio, 45766

Cell: 740-331-1274

email: km286308@ohio.edu

EDUCATION

2012 B.F.A.  Painting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

1994-2008    Home School

JOB EXPERIENCE

2010-2012 Dish room & fast food employee of West 82 in the Baker Center,   

              Athens, Ohio

2004-2009 Office Assistant at F.A.A.S., Athens, Ohio Position required filing work,  

              customer interaction, and random office grunt work.

              Athens, Ohio

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS

2011    Undergraduate Art Show, Margaret Brown Krecker prize in arts award,   

             Ohio University, Ohio

             Awarded by Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts Chuck McWeeny     

             for my painting "Give and Take"

2010    Ohio University Undergraduate Art Show, Juror's Award, Ohio University,      

             Ohio

             Awarded by Chief Curator of the Columbus Museum of Art Catherine Evans       

             for my piece "Am I A Monster"

2002    Appalachian Ohio Peace Prize, Athens, Ohio

             Awarded for work submitted into the Ohio Peace Prize where I    

             competed agains grades 6-12 to create a peace flag logo.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2012    Baker Center Trisolini Gallery, Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition "Aporia/

             AAGH",

             Athens, Ohio

             Salon Rue de la Court, Student juried art show held at Juror's apartment/   

             gallery, endorsed by Rascal Magazine, 

             Athens, Ohio

             Seigfred Art Gallery, "Undergraduate Art Show", 

             Athens, Ohio

             Cube 4 Gallery, "Feast Your Eyes" art exhibition,                                                       

             Athens, Ohio

2011    83Gallery, untitled group show,                                                                                     

             Columbus, Ohio

             Seigfred Art Gallery, "Undergraduate Art Show", 

             Athens, Ohio

2010    Cranky Yellow Gallery, "Drawgasmic", 

             Saint Louis, Missouri

             Seigfred Art Gallery, "Undergraduate Art Show", 

             Athens, Ohio

             83Gallery, "Short North Gallery Hop", 

             Columbus, Ohio

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2012    Athens Print Guild, Work displayed for sale through the Athens Print Guild   

             print sale.

2011    Boffing Cups, East Elementary School, Athens, Ohio

             Performance involving play combat and ceramic sculpture in the East    

             Elementary Playground.

2011    Artist's Coffee Cups, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

             collaborative art project with graphic design student for project titled Artists   

             Coffee Cups, included 10 of my cup designs.

2011    Gallery set up assistant, Volunteered at Seigfred Art Gallery preparing the  

             2011 undergraduate art show for opening day, hanging paintings,  

             cleaning, and organization, Athens, Ohio

2010-2012   Vice President, Undergraduate Art League, Ohio University, Athens,   

             Ohio

             Duties as vice president included poster making, event organization,  

             advice for lower clansmen on projects and other school related things.

2011   Experience the Art Day, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

             school funded event held for potential undergraduates in the fine arts     

             program, some of my images were presented in a slide-show.

2010    Japanese Graphic Design Exchange Program Project, Ohio University,   

             Athens, Ohio

             Project included a week long program were Ohio University students were    

             teamed up with Chubu University exchange students from Japan to design 

             a store and advertisements.

2010    Drawgasmic Book, painting titled "Dr. Funk" was an image included in      

             the independently produced Drawgasmic book.

2010    Keegan McGee's Monster Self Defense Seminar, Ohio University,       

             Athens, Ohio

             One night performance event invoking audience participation.

2005    Grid Lab Volunteer, video game research and arcade center, Athens, Ohio

             Duties as Grid Lab volunteer included logo design, video game and video    

             game console trouble shooting and set up.

COLLECTIONS

             Work titled "Boners" included in 83Gallery's private collection, Ohio

             Work titled "Apocalypse Babes" included in Brian Menze's private    

             collection, California 

Artist Statement

  Keegan McGee-Moore/ Artist Statement 

    The work I create focuses mostly on asking people to see the world in a different way. Imagining myself as an archetypal medieval fantasy hero, I can have fun doing tasks I don't really want to do and look back at how funny everything in life really is. I align myself with fantasy illustrators and low brow artists. I'm interested in ways my work can function in regard to relational aesthetics. Jim Henson, video game, and role playing game art are heavy influences on my visual style in regard to character design.  Video games are also a very large part of my visual language because of the sinology of objects within a story that are used to create specific stories for different archetypal characters. I look to the punk and metal music movements, which share ideas with my work about individuality, anti-establishment, and anti-utopian ideals. Conceptually, my work is inspired by the idea of fantasy where you can live out events in a fictional person's shoes. The idea of fantasy was created taking elements from role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy video games. 

A very tiny triptych

Title says it all, biggest piece of the set is only 12"by12." Watercolor and ink on paper then glazed the crap out of, 2010

Am I A Monster part 2

My revised "Am I A Monster" piece, I liked the concept so I went back a couple years later and did it again. Watercolor, ink, and Crayola Marker on paper and used canvas, 16"x20", 2011.