Keegan O’Rourke was born on August 31st 1988 at around 8:30AM, and grew up in the Pacific Northwest of America. From an early age his strongest interests were in the landscapes and architecture of his surroundings, and these forms have remained a primary source of inspiration in his work. In his youth, Keegan's passion for the building of new worlds found its outlet in Legos, map-making, and three-dimensional level design. As Keegan witnessed and gained access to more spaces in the wilderness and the city, photography became his path towards developing a careful vision of the world around him. In his representational drawings and digital paintings these considerations would often take on the shape of metaphor and symbolism, but in an attempt to further merge his often diametrical modes of expression (one political, the other meditative) Keegan moved into non-representational painting with a series titled "Surfacing". Keegan began this way of working in the summer of 2008 and has had several group shows and one solo show in Tacoma and Olympia in which he exhibited both paintings and photography. Keegan is currently painting in Olympia as his undergraduate studies come to an end.