News of the Auer

Keith has 2 Solo Exhibitions going on simultaneously...and they are very different!

He is the first invited artist of the new Weber Gallery sponsored by The Council On Mental Retardation. His exhibition Art From The Heart is from June 15- August 28, 2009. His other Solo Exhibition is a part of the Louisville Photo Biennial and Visual Art Festival is at PYRO Gallery. Illusions of Certainty, which runs July 10- August15, 2009, exhibits unique color abstact prints.

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The Book
The Photographic Humor Of Keith Auerbach is having a poplular reception. Read the great review "A Visual Dance" in The Courier Journal written by Julien Robson, the then Curator Of Contempoary Art, Speed Museum and now the Curator Of Contempoary Art at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
His book is available here in Louisville at: 21C Musuem Hotel, Carmichael's Books, Barnes & Noble at the Summit, Borders Gardner Lane and Stoney Brook, Edenside Gallery, Speed Museum Gift Shop, Regallos, Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts store, Murphy's Camera Bardstown Road, PYRO Gallery, and, of course, on this website.

Some of Keith's images were also published in The Annual Best Of Photography 2007 and in feature articles about him in Kentucky Humanities Magazine,October 2007 and in the Derby Issue of Kentucky Homes and Garden Magazine, March/April 2008. He was also featured on Kentucky Educational Television (KET) Louisville Life. Watch here

Most recently,his images were published in The Annual Best Of Photography 2008, in the coffee table book The International Photography Awards/Lucie Awards 2008, and in SPECTRUM, the British publication UK Sunday Times inaugural photography magazine published all over Britain and Europe.

Awards/Competitions
Keith has won over 20 National Competitions in the past 2 years. Highlights include his humor book winning a Book Of The Year (IPPY) Award from the Independent Publishers Association and the International Photography/Lucie Award which is considered the equivalent of an Oscar in the photography world.

He donated 13 photographs to the permanent collection of Guilda's Club of Louisville on Baxter Avenue. The cancer patients and their families are enjoying his images.

Keith Auerbach

Keith Auerbach, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned his BA in Art History from Northwestern University. He studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts and Crafts and at the University of Louisville with Suzanne Mitchell. More recently he has studied with Joyce Tenneson, Sheila Metzner, Duane Michals, John Paul Caponigro and Maggie Taylor. He is a member of PYRO Co-op Gallery in Louisville. Each week for more than 15 years, his photographs were featured as a visual statement in the Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO). He has won numerous awards, both nationally and regionally. His images have been published in newspapers and magazines and have been selected for book and album covers. He travels extensively, ever expanding his quest for fragile moments and unexpected pairings.

keith@auerbachphoto.com

Artist's Statement

I love taking pictures.

I see humor in ordinary instances, and I try to photograph in such a way that the images become intimate comments on living. I photograph feelings and moods and enjoy anticipating, then capturing, the one moment when the picture is perfectly ripe.

I love telling stories.

I have been told there is always a human presence in my photographs whether or not there are people in the image. And I enjoy creating visual puns, unexpected pairings, and a friendly but unfamiliar view of the familiar. Mostly, I watch and wait for that one decisive moment when the ocean can be measured in a drop.