Dissonant Works proudly welcomes Maureen Keaveny as our first artist-in-residence. We invite you to experience her series, Dichotomies, in our ever-evolving creative community space. 

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Dichotomies is a photographic exploration shot across desert landscapes that captures the desert not only as a physical terrain but as a conceptual site of contradiction where absence holds presence, stillness implies motion, and vastness coexists with intimacy. Through stark compositions, manipulations and uncanny textures, the images interrogate the paradoxes of survival, isolation, and transformation. They reveal the desert as a mirror to contemporary anxieties where the sublime beauty of the environment is haunted by both memory and myth.

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Maureen is a visual artist based in St. Louis, MO, working across sculpture, installation, and photography. Her practice explores the uncanny intersections of primordial nature, synthetic structures, and the human psyche. Using everyday materials, she reflects on the surreal textures of contemporary life, shaped by ecological, psychological, and social crises. She earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007. Her work has been featured nationally in both solo and group exhibitions, primarily in experimental and artist-run spaces.

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This program is supported in part by a grant from

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