July 8.

Viewed from a distance, Keever's large photographs are of moody, damp environments. Mist hovers over boggy ground, tropical plants crowd the embankment, streams snake across the dirt, and everything is oppressed by an uncommonly active sky with thick clouds that stretch for miles.

Yet there is something disquietingly artificial about these landscapes - the ground's pigmentation is several tones too bright, and plants in the middle distance have sharp contours, throwing off our sense of spatial relationships.

These are photographs of an environment Keever has constructed inside of a fish tank - algae grows on the tank's interior, and droplets of water run down the outside of the glass. Inside a 100-gallon aquarium, he creates the topography - miniature mountains, trees, plants and rivers. He then fills the tank with water, dropping in pigments to create the swirling movement of the sky. He lights the tank with colored gels and then photographs it.

Keever's manipulated environments are eerie and beautiful, and one has to marvel at the technique - simulation still has the power to mesmerize. But there's also little here to make us feel good about the real thing, and this is as close of an expression or our troubled relationship to nature as art has recently been able to provide.
-Jessica Lott, NY Arts Magazine