Autobiography

   I've been drawing since I could hold a pen. My subjects have always been violent, dinosaurs, vampires, imaginary monsters from imaginary worlds. Drawing was always just a thing to do until I turned ten and moved to California where we lived in the suburbs surrounded by other kids. Pokemon was popular and so I wanted to play but it never crossed my mind to purchase the actual game cards, so I found collectors magazines and copied the cards. I drew all the rarest Pokemon for my deck, on cut up cereal boxes and used office supplies. Drawing Pokemon threw me into a frenzy, I wanted to create my own world so I came up with my own card games that I illustrated. When I was 15 I wanted to be a video game designer so I started to copy Star Wars concept art, fantasy art, and even more collectible cards. Going to college started me off in a whole other direction, I wasn't interested in the digital, the intangible worlds of fantasy, I wanted to bring my imaginary world into this one. The art I create is so inspired by video games and role playing culture because they are artifacts to me that bring the imaginary into the real, but I want to take their ideas further and create a new level of experience with the viewer.

   Right now, I am trying to advance the field of the imaginary, the same thing that fantasy artists have been doing since fantasy art existed as it's own entity outside of religious art and fables. I want to use the experience of being someone else, that video games and role playing games can do so well, to bring a new way of looking at life to people who experience my art. Mixing performance, painting, and medieval play weapons people will know what it is to be Keegan McGee.