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Artist Statement:
ARTIST STATEMENT
The canvas is a place of
construction and demolition,
and the act of painting for me
is much like sifting through
the fragmented remains for
things that I can salvage.
Forms are moved about…pierced,
fragmented, inflated, spun,
shaken, morphed, and spliced
together as I rearrange them
in this visual container.
Source imagery comes from a
multitude of places like
children’s science books,
sketchbook doodles, and
objects like toy dinosaurs,
flowers, or cicada shells.
Abstraction is the means of
layering and rearranging these
quirky and mundane forms and
spaces so that they become
imbued with new meanings. I
force photoreal elements with
decorative hard-edged patterns
and more realistic or gestural
things so that the difference
in perceptual “languages”
becomes so strong that it
implies a sort of violence.
This is the violence that
painting does best; paint
becoming flesh and paint
becoming vapor simultaneously.
Increasingly my work has been
inhabited by figures from art
history. Tiepolo, Rembrandt,
and Correggio give me
beautiful bodies that are
being caught up either
literally “into the sky” or
figuratively “into rapture” as
they swoon under the force of
seduction. Paint is swirling,
smeared, and pixilated as a
metaphor for relational...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO Exhibitions
2008 "Zones of Permeability"
ARC Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
"Escape Routes"
University of Northern
Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa
"Cosmic Rifts"
930 Gallery
Louisville, Kentucky
2007 "As Skin: Portals,
Wormholes, and Breaches in the
Levee"
MFA Thesis Exhibit
Hiestand Gallery
Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio
2004 “Kenneth Hall”
BFA Thesis Exhibit
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
“Bright Potential Makes for
Exciting Display”, Columbus
Dispatch, August 10, 2003
“Media, Messages Run Gamut at
Yearly Show”, Columbus
Dispatch, August 11, 2002
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Collections:
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Commissions for Kenneth Hall:
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2004 (January-September)
William Smiley, Gahanna, Ohio, USA. 11-painting assemblage for residence, which included scenery from Tuscany, Italy, abstract imagery, and references to art history. The overall scale of the assemblage is 8 ft x 8 ft.
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