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Emerging San Francisco based artist Keegan McHargue (Portland, 1982) has been depicted as “a magnificent maker of intense, busily illustrated drawings and paintings that warp perspective and combine imagery more as if in a dream than in reality”. (Sarah Valdez, 2006).

For Nieves, Keegan specifically crafted a zine reproducing a detail out of a painting made in 2005 titled "Patients," on show at Metro Pictures, manipulating it through several generations of photocopies to create an even more bleak work than the original painting.

In 2008 Keegan McHargue will take part in a group show at Max Wigram, London, and will have a new solo show at Galerie Emmaunel Perrotin, Paris, in June. His new book Mauve Deep has just been released by Hiromi Yoshii Gallery.