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KEKeith’s first video: “Painting Myself Into a Corner.”
In 1978, Keith began experimenting with video as a way to merge painting and performance. In his first completed work, “Painting Myself Into a Corner” (excerpted here), he listens to Devo while rhythmically painting thick black lines across a canvas laid on the floor—until he leaves himself just a narrow wedge of space.
“My recent paintings and sculptures deal more with space than with pictorial concerns,” he wrote on December 18 of that year, as his focus began to shift. “I am just now becoming aware of how important it is to utilize space and movement in harmony…”
Video: Keith Haring, “Painting Myself Into a Corner,” 1978. Collection of the Keith Haring Foundation. © Keith Haring Foundation.
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