I was first attracted to Keating's work by the interesting perspective he uses and as a people watcher I can resonate with the subject. Its fun looking out your window and simply watching the people as they pass by especially since you never know whats going to pass by. the other intersting thing about his paintings is the impressionist style. at first you think its a blurry image, but in fact it was painted that way and adds emphasis to the fact that the scene in the painting lasted a mere second as the sunjects are in motion.
"Opposing elements of photography and abstraction somehow come together as perfect partners in this blending of 20th century painting ideas; abstraction, expression and narration with 21st Century technology; digitized video, satellite surveillance and internet voyeurism. Expressionistic mark-making depicts walking subjects, stop-action, mid-step in thick paint that renders motion in the form of video scan lines and pixel artifacts. Keating has painstakingly selected the exact frame, from hundreds, that tell us the story of each character, and rendered the digital nature of each image in a painterly style depicting a privileged view of a private moment.
