Richard Keaveny

Dick Keaveny is an accomplished painter and an award-winning teacher. Throughout his career he has taught painting, art education, and art history. In addition to developing a highly popular Art Appreciation course, he also teaches the History of Design and Contemporary/Alternate Art. His figurative and abstract paintings, in which he experiments with iconic imagery from art history and/or stereotypical images from popular culture, have been widely exhibited. Soldiers, saints, cowboys, and clowns are some of the assorted characters that have appeared in his work. His solo and two person exhibitions include: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (1994), Ann Arbor Art Center (1996), South Bend Regional Museum of Art (2000), University of Wisconsin, Madison (2002), and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids (2007).