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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:
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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:
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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Artist Statement for Kenneth Hall
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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 struggles; misunderstandings and unfulfilled desire between lovers. It also becomes a beautiful, raw, even sexy presence in its own right.
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