Keeara Rhoades Biography
by, Emily Greenleaf

Four years ago, Keeara Rhoades stunned the Upper Left Coast art scene with her “What I did on my Summer Vacation” series, an exhibit of large Polaroids depicting sailboats in popular northwest gunk holing destinations being sunk by enormous basalt columns, seemingly hurled out of the void like bolts of lightening. For months after the exhibit’s opening at the Gonzo Gallery, Ms. Rhoades was hounded by the art scene paparazzi, all hoping to catch a glimpse of the catapult she’d used to create the work. Instead, they were subjected to hours and hours of band rehearsals (Ms. Rhoades is the drummer for the punk fusion band The ‘Ard of ‘Earins) and bewildering trips to Costco for the purchases of large quantities of condiments, leading frustrated Seattle Post-Intelligencer art critic Regina Hackett to write in an impassioned editorial: “Who needs 18 gallons of ketchup a month? What fetid swamp of an installation is Ms. Rhoades creating now? And is this a good use of public art funding?” In the pursuant furor, Seattle became the first city in the country to restrict the use of condiments in public works of art. Still, the mystery of Keeara Rhoades persists. She was recently spotted pushing a wheelbarrow full of sandwiches into the garden behind her house. When asked what the sandwiches were for, she looked surprised. “Oh, it’s just a little snack, you know. Beer nuts and mayonnaise. A summer-sort of sandwich."

Ms. Rhoades’ next exhibit goes up in August, and it appears that nothing will be revealed about its nature to the public until then.
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