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Bayat Keerl, Fatal Metal Mark #1, 1979
oil on photograph
80 x 48 in.

Bayat Keerl was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1948. He earned a B.F.A. from the Layton School of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1970, and an M.F.A. two years later from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981 and 1987. He has exhibited in Switzerland, Sweden,and throughout the United States, and his work is included in the collections of the American Express Company and the Union Bank of Switzerland, among others. Keerl started his career as a performance artist, and he carried his interest i movement in to later work, which consists of large photo enlargements of objects and figures in motion, overlaid with painting. The resulting blurred and shifting images explore culturally constructed ways of seeing and fabricating reality.