Keith Coventry

Images courtesy of Haunch of Venison

Creating paintings and sculptures which manipulate legacies of Modernism to address conditions of contemporary urban life. Demonstrating an interest in the dark flipside of idealism: urban decay, social failure, drug abuse, and alienation. Many of the art historical references that Coventry uses are defined by the Utopian ideals of Modernism, the aim of which was to refashion the world. Coventry plays with these beliefs and shows them to be misplaced, the divide between belief and reality a strong undercurrent in his work.