The Architecture of Light and Landscape The physical weight of wood and the precision of construction define the early years of Tom Keesee. Born in 1954 in the United States, he spent summers working as a rough carpenter, a period of manual labor that informs the structural understanding found in his later compositions. This tactile relationship with material transitioned into a formal study of art, leading him to the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, where he earned his BFA in 1977. He moved from the physical assembly of structures to the deliberate layering of pigment, eventually…