Type: Fine Art
Artist: Keith Coventry
Curator: Daniel Sturgis
Gallery: Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England
Year: 2012

Keith Coventry makes art that looks deceptively clean and minimal. Grids, maps, monochrome panels with a sharp message that is an unsettling commentary on class, urban life, and the hidden systems that shape everyday experience. His work borrows the language of modernism (think cool abstraction and order) with references to social housing and junk-food branding. Daniel Sturgis is an art critic and painter who brings an insider's eye to Coventry's art.