Keva Richardson was raised in a small town in the Texas Panhandle. She graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in Education, specializing in art and languages. Following graduation, she moved to Austin, TX and began taking art classes from St. Edwards University, the University of Texas, and the Art School at Laguna Gloria, along the way discovering herself as an artist. After several years of dedicated study, she established a studio in East Austin and began her career as a professional artist. Her artwork can be found in private collections throughout the United States and abroad.
Keva’s experience growing up in the West Texas landscape informs her current work. The memories of long drives and wide-open panoramas are uniquely rendered with an abstract impressionism perspective. We all have a landscape of some kind around us, whether it is the sweeping expanse of West Texas, a coastal, or an urban landscape. Her work attempts to strike a balance between the sometimes-chaotic world we inhabit and the beauty of the natural world that surrounds us. She believes observing the richness and wonder of the landscape presents a shared experience and can inform and connect us to ourselves and to one another.
Press:
Native Texan, Keva Richardson, has created a group of works which shows a very personal look at the great expanse of land and sky that is West Texas, through abstraction. Beautifully detailed, visually and emotionally layered, she created a group of works by painting and drawing, cutting and layering, and developing artwork that reflects the way these vast landscapes affect her. In doing so, Keva describes the abstract visual sensation she gets while driving through this stark, cinematic and ancient landscape.
High Plateau, Marfa, TX
“Keva Richardson’s paintings never disappoint. From black-and-white
renderings of rural landscapes to total abstractions, her works are full
of wanderlust and a sophisticated understanding of color. Her recent
series, Highways, reads almost like computer circuitry or DNA
visualizations. Capturing the artist’s memories of Texas and New
Mexico landscapes as seen from a moving car, these complex
compositional grids are intricately layered, with rhythmic lines
punctuated by bursts of color.”
Glasstire
“Keva Richardson is a West Texas native living in Austin, painting
scenes that evoke the vast, stark, linear plains of her youth. Looking
at her paintings: I can see it. There’s a definite fondness for
horizontal divisions and vast, lush expanses of color. Maybe that’s
the most interesting thing about America’s pancake landscape, out in
the flat states. It’s all built of one gorgeous box of textured color on
top of another. Perspective is as much about suggestion as it is
about rendering, when you’re out in West Texas. Objects are not
precisely in relation to each other, but they’re all in relation to the
fundamental up and down. Something about the way the paintings
pull the eye suggests gravity, weight, and the passage of time.”
Urbanskep
