Keith Allyn Spencer

Keith Allyn Spencer’s work is rooted in the belief that the world makes drawings itself. Working across painting, photography, artist books, video, and installation, his projects function as highways to seeing. Pulling from daily wanderings, Spencer is interested in moments when ordinary things begin behaving like something else. Rather than inventing, he begins by noticing.

A hose becomes a drawing, a car cover becomes a painting, and photographs become sculptural books that resist being read. Looking at his work means spending some time not being entirely sure what you are looking at.

Born and raised in the Chihuahuan Desert borderland of West Texas and now living in central Ohio, Spencer moves between art spaces and everyday environments. His projects have appeared in galleries, archives, front yards, retail stores, and fast-food restaurants. Whether encountered in an exhibition or on a neighborhood walk, his work begins with the possibility that art might already be happening there.