Keaton Fox

Artist Statement

FeverDreamScapes is a collaborative series experimenting with painting and video to create an uncanny effect.

Through the integration of old and new media, video artist Keaton Fox and painter Renee Silva come together to generate surreal landscapes of static and moving images that visualize the often paradoxical ecologies of the present.

Silva’s abstract environments of rooms, foliage, and symbols are animated into Fox’s video collages of limbs, animals, and loss. Contemplative oil paintings reveal new narratives as they dissolve into pixels of chaos and connection. These unusual simulations meld contemporary and traditional mediums together to introduce a unique visual language that continually alludes to a universal but undefined feeling of recurring dissonance.

Forever invested in making the invisible visible, Fox and Silva are particularly stimulated by the visceral tensions that accompany politics surrounding subjects that can be difficult to visualize; with climate change, disability, queerness and friendship being themes that routinely guide their joint practice.

Their fever dream aesthetics offer an antidote to the nihilism that underlies much of 21st century life. By finding meaning through futility, these works allow the viewer to locate moments of clarity within an ever-shifting abstraction; offering a feeling that mirrors the moment while simultaneously providing technicolor alternatives.

Bio / CV

Renee and Keaton began collaborating in 2017 after meeting in Boston through a Craigslist ad for a shared studio space.

They have been exhibiting work together ever since.

FeverDreamScapes has been contracted for multiple commissions in the city of Boston with both the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and for the lobby of 100 Federal St located Downtown.

Additionally, their work has gone on to be exhibited and award-winning at a variety of film and video art festivals, including Digital Graffiti in Alys Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art in St. Augustine, as well as at the Finger Mullet Film Festival at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, and the School of Visuals Arts Flatiron Gallery in NYC.

Their work continues to push the boundaries of their respective mediums and create moving images in new and exciting ways.