Art continued to be a central interest throughout Keith's experimental and rather rebellious adolescence. He was often in trouble with his teachers due to the fact that all he ever thought about was art. Through books and museum visits he began to develop an awareness of modern art. Keith saw his first Warhols on a church visit to the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C. This is where the passion began to take form. Keith began to get more involved with art and decided on making a future out of it. After high school, Keith enrolled in the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh.

In 1976, Keith hitchhiked cross-country, stopping along the way to look at other art programs, gaining influence and ideas along the way. His style of art can be seen as a mix of many different artistic styles. Keith gained a majority of

Elements that would become central to Keith's style were beginning to emerge; he began working with a vocabulary of small, interconnected abstract shapes. The use of abstract shapes can be seen in any of his many works, and gives his artwork a very distinct style. At the same time, he began to discover some of his most important influences among modern artists. Artists like Jean Dubuffet, Mark Tobey and Pierre Alechinsky were artists that he studied. All had very distinct styles of painting and later contributed to Keith's one of a kind form of art.

his influence from graffiti artists like the Fabulous 5ive, the only group of artists to paint all ten cars of a train. Though it wasn't only the art on the outside of the trains that caught Keith's attention, it was also the calligraphy, or signatures on the inside of the train that Keith gained most of his influence from. Keith believed the signatures on the train beard the likeness of Chinese calligraphy which was similar to the drawings he was beginning to do. When he returned to Pittsburgh later that year, he sat in on classes at the University of Pittsburgh, and eventually became involved with the Pittsb

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