About the Artist
Delia Ware Keefe
Delia Ware Keefe has studied painting and printmaking for many years. She earned her BA in studio art and art history at Emmanuel College, Boston. She studied graduate printmaking at Ohio University, Athens, and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Presently, Keefe lives in North Carolina where she works in her private art studio, Two Dog Studio.
Self-Portrait, etching and chine collé.
Artist’s Statement
I express myself artistically by creating hand-pulled prints, paintings, drawings, and artists' books. I develop my artwork by studying and responding to the colors, shapes, and textures of organic forms, many of which I have collected from nature over the years.
Land and sea, trees, water, fossils, birds’ eggs, nests, shells, sticks, leaves, blossoms, webs, stones, insects, and bones inspire me and, through studying their unique forms. I develop intricate designs and abstractions.
My work expresses personal feelings, beliefs, and relationships through the use of color and abstracted design. I paint and draw layered imagery in my prints, enhancing the interaction between opaque and transparent forms, sometimes simply, sometimes with complication, camouflage and metamorphosis.
Recent Exhibitions
2022
Creativity, Community, and Emergence: Book Artists Finding Hope in Isolation. Triangle Book Arts, Cleveland County Arts Council, Shelby, NC (July 7–August 11, 2022)
2021
“Printed” Original Works from the Artists’ Own Hands. Cleveland County Arts Council, Shelby, NC (September 30–November 4, 2021)
2021
Hope & Creativity in the Time of COVID: Triangle Book Arts Show. Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC
2019
The Natural Abstracted: Artists Judith Ernst, Susan Filley, Delia Ware Keefe, and Miriam Sagasti. Campbell House Galleries, Moore County Arts Council, Southern Pines, NC
2018
Re(f)use: Triangle Book Arts Show, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2018
Fossils. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham, NC
Solo Exhibition
2016
Printocracy 2: Printmakers of North Carolina. Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC
2016
Printocracy: Printmakers of North Carolina. Cary Town Hall, Cary, NC
Download a full list of exhibitions in pdf format here.
