The Selection Committee Radio Show with Caitlin Keogh, 1/14/25

Painter Caitlin Keogh’s most recent show at Bortolami Gallery in New York, “Procession,” centers on a suite of seven contiguous paintings. These intricate and allusory canvases are made up of translations of art historical, design, and commercial sources ranging from Cranach and Beardsley to the Wiener Werkstätte and Harper's. At once fascinating and bemusing, these compositions are structured like a dance. It’s no surprise, then, that we begin our conversation talking about Keogh’s childhood study of ballet. We talk about the discipline and how it’s essentially an art form of interpretation rather than expression—of objecthood and subjecthood.