Casey McKee

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Casey McKee (* 1976 in Phoenix , Arizona ) is an American artist .

life and work

McKee's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, for example the Village People in the Kunstverein Wolfsburg , Human Conditions in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale , Arizona, and UN / FAIR TRADE - The Art of Justice in the Neue Galerie Graz at the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Austria Graz . He is represented by Galerie Greulich in Frankfurt am Main and by Helium Cowboy in Hamburg .

McKee works mostly in a mixed technique, a combination of photography and painting . First he takes a photograph and uses photographic emulsion to transfer it to a surface (for example, linen, wood, handcrafted paper, etc.) McKee spends most of his time working with oil paint to bring out the desired aspects of the object.

McKee's work has appeared in a number of print publications, often in connection with other respected artists such as John Currin , most recently in The Upset: Young Contemporary Art , published by Die Gestalten Verlag, Germany . McKee's work is also in the permanent collection of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SmoCA) in Scottsdale.

After a long stay in China , the artist lives and works in Berlin .

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personal data
SURNAME McKee, Casey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Phoenix , Arizona