A Deep Harmony Thrumming in the Mixture: Recent Work by Kathryn Keller includes thirty-five of Keller’s beautifully rendered watercolor and oil paintings of landscapes, cityscapes, interiors, and a still life. The exhibition opens to the public at the Morris Museum of Art on October 5, 2024, and remains on display through February 16, 2025

“Kathryn Keller’s works evoke a sense of familiarity—a sense of place—and are silent, subtle salutes to the South and the Southern way of life,” said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. “From towering, majestic trees in a pasture providing shade on a hot summer day to interior scenes of cozy living spaces with a drying umbrella or a crackling fire, Keller is inspired by the comfort and intimacy of her surroundings and experiences.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

A native of El Dorado, Arkansas, Kathryn Keller earned an undergraduate degree in fine art and English from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She pursued further study at the Arkansas Arts Center (now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts) in Little Rock; the Art Students League in New York City, and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts in Louisiana.

Her early work—with its focus on family life, birth, and death—could be characterized as narrative in nature. In her late forties, she began working almost exclusively from life, drawing inspiration from her surroundings and her family. Over the length of a professional career that now spans nearly five decades, she has focused principally on landscapes, cityscapes, interiors, andselected still life works.

Her work is currently represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, Louisiana, and by Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia and has been exhibited in Miami, Florida; Dallas, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Louisville, Kentucky; Charlottesville, Virginia; Savannah, Georgia; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has an upcoming show in the Spring of 2025 in New York City.

Highly sought after by museums, her work is now included in the permanent collections of twelve museums, including those of the Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana; the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia; the Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina; the Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana; the Lagrange Museum of Art, Lagrange, Georgia; the LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia; the Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, Louisiana; the Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana; the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia; the Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas, and the Zigler Museum of Art in Jennings, Louisiana.

 RELATED EVENTS

Thursday, October 10

6:00 p.m. Art Now Artist Talk: Micah Cash. Artist Micah Cash will discuss his photographs from the book Waffle House Vistas, now in an expanded second edition, published by the Bitter Southerner. His photographs of the vistas through Waffle House windows take us on a journey through the South's changing landscape from the ever-constant maroon booths of Waffle House. A reception for artists Micah Cash and Kathryn Keller follows. FREE. RSVP to 706-828-3867.

Friday, October 11

Noon. Art at Lunch: Kathryn Keller. Artist Kathryn Keller will discuss her work featured in the current exhibition A Deep Harmony Thrumming in the Mixture: Recent Work by Kathryn Keller with Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. Members, $20; nonmembers, $25; lecture only, $15. Catered lunch included. Place paid reservations by October 9 online or call 706-828-3867.

The Morris Museum of Art, founded in 1985, opened to the public in 1992. It is the oldest museum in the country that is devoted to the art and artists of the American South. The museum’s permanent collection includes more than six thousand works of art, dating from the late-eighteenth century to the present. The Morris is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and on Sunday, noon–5:00 p.m. For more information about the Morris Museum of Art, visit www.themorris.org or call 706-724-7501.