Rendering Extraction in red, white, and blue
72 x 72 in | oil on canvas | 2025
Guest Artist Austin Casebolt to open the 25-26 Keator Gallery Exhibition Series
AUSTIN GRANT CASEBOLT | figuring remediation
Keator Gallery, Hopkins School 986 Forest Rd, New Haven, 06515
Artist Reception: Friday, September 5th, 6 - 8 PM EST
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
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Keator Gallery is pleased to present Austin Grant Casebolt, figuring remediation. In this survey of new and recent work, Casebolt processes themes of ecology and economy while exploring the dimensions of power as a provision.
In this reflection of his rigorous multidisciplinary practice, Casebolt’s concepts take form in oil paintings, mixed media works on paper, and photograms. Through distinct visual poetics, figuring remediation refines a fraught kinship towards industrial mining. While sweeping in their epistemological and philosophical considerations, the compositions, both intimate and vast in scale, concretize abstract vignettes of Casebolt’s lived experience.
A polymath practitioner with a maximalist range of media in his oeuvre, Casebolt’s background in traditional oil painting collapses compelling works with a keen mastery of his irregular application of coal pigment on hauntingly reductive works. When considered beside pigment applied to ground his compositions petition the viewer to enhance their proximity with a metaphysical application of the rural atmospheric perspective. These suspended works in exhibition echo the eco-temporal, sensory, and emotional limbo that underpin the work itself.
Casebolt’s photograms conversely expand upon and complement his earlier coal-tar works to include rural iconography. High contrast art is set against light-resistant coal, rendered white through its opacity. Bituminous minerals obstinate permeable light from burning photosensitive surfaces. Raw energy is hurtled from the cradle of subterranean mines to the jarring presence of light, the works endure a startling return to specificity. As neither the materials, nor their referent, exist in isolation, together the assemblages and photograms produce a push-pull catch and release, a reflective space to consider humanity’s relationship to the ecological and economic forces inextricably embedded in fossil fuels.
Casebolt’s work has been shown in exhibitions at High Noon Gallery, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Shelia C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons 25 East 13th Gallery, Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Ralph Center Gallery, Owensboro RiverPark Center, Jones Visual Art Center, Transylvania Morgan Gallery, Webber Art Gallery, Claypool Young Gallery, Kentucky Folk Arts Center, Janice B. Ford Gallery, McCall Art Gallery, and the Western Kentucky Botanical Garden.
ABOUT KETOR GALLERY
Conceived as part of the Baldwin Hall renovation initiative in the early 2000s—a project that also saw the construction of the adjacent library and its accompanying public patio—the gallery was established to serve as a dynamic, pedagogical, and cultural node within the broader institutional architecture. Keator Gallery has since evolved into a site of critical inquiry and aesthetic engagement for both students, emerging and established artists.
The gallery has hosted a robust program of exhibitions ranging from solo presentations and thematic group shows to historical retrospectives and community-centered projects. Recent exhibiting artists include Jason Ting, Kwadwo Adae, Faustian Adeniran, and Mohamed Hafez, whose works exemplify a range of contemporary discourses across media, identity, and socio-political narratives. In addition to professional artists, the gallery maintains a strong commitment to fostering local creative ecosystems through faculty exhibitions, school heritage displays, and an ongoing rotation of student-driven works.
As both a pedagogical laboratory and a site for public encounter, the gallery remains committed to curatorial experimentation, interdisciplinary dialogue, and the amplification of diverse artistic voices.
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