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Artist Statement:
e-Book Catalog for Midwest
Dialog available at Barnes and
Noble for $6.99. See link
below...
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s
/Walter-King-Midwest-Dialog?sto
re=ebook&keyword=Walter+King%3A
+Midwest+Dialog
Walter King: Midwest Dialog (a
40 year retrospective is over
but the POD catalog is
available ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 WALTER KING: Midwestern
Dialogue, Columbus Ohio, Fort
Hayes Shot Tower Gallery and
Mount Vernon Nazerene
University.
2010 7 Landscape Painters:
Tina Engels,Walter
King,William LaChance,
Damon McArthur,Frank
Spidale,Tom Tomc,and Barbara
Major-Weaver. The Beverly Art
Center, Chicago IL
2009-2010 Illuminating Art:
German ...
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Artist Galleries:
Currently represented by
Galleria Evangelia here in
Columbus OH. But works offered
for sale on Absolutearts are
still available via the net.
Works shown but not available
either temporarily or simply
not for sale or sold will be
marked appropriately.
The exhibition of watercolor
souvineers was, in fact,
exhibited at...
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Artist Reviews:
Complex...brooding, opulent
colors, somber tonality,
flawlessly executed, King's
spirituality
is...subterranean. He gives us
only what we are willing to
seek. King presents us with an
imagined world...they are the
womb, they are the palm of
God's hand, they are an ideal
reality were time and ...
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Collections:
Greater Columbus Arts Council,
OH
Hiroshima Museum of Art,
Hiroshima Japan
Ohio State University/Newark
Campus, Newark OH
World Wide Arts Resources,
Columbus OH
Centro Cultural Recoleta,
Buenos Aires Argentina
Commercial Bank of Tulsa
Oklahoma
Industrie-Technik Magazine of
Hungary
Private Collections in the
United States and abroad
including collections ...
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Commissions:
Yes. I'm willing to discuss
commissions in a variety of
media. I'm interested in
portraiture. I've recently
finished several portrait
commissions. Mine are unique
and out of the ordinary. A few
samples can be seen on the
site.
I've had illustrations used
for Artisan publications,
Oprah ...
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Walter King Biography:
| Biographical information for Walter King can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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58
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
Born Catholic, became Quaker, |
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| Education |
Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
I write poetry. I sail lake Erie. I like long road trips especially out west. I've traveled Europe and parts of Argentina. Hire me to speak or exhibit and I'll go almost anywhere. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Art - (1910 - )
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
these questions are not fair.
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Matisse's Studio San Michel
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
When I was in grade school in the 60's my mother used to do copies of landscape paintings at night while everyone else was watching TV. I often watched as she graphed up the landscape print or photo to a larger piece of pastel paper. Eventually she taught me how to graph up an image. It was my first drawing lesson.
Chris (a writer and a musician) and Kevin Boyle,(an artist) two friends who lived down the street were very influential to me. They were 2-3 years older than I, in high school when I was in junior high. They accepted me the first time we met and took me under their wings. Kevin became a photographer and video artist in the 70's and exhibited at Holly Solomon. Chris became a music industry writer, a press agent for the Doors, has the last interview with Peter Tosh before he was murdered and now teaches English in Laguna Beach and has just recorded his first CD. Chris and Kevin taught me about being creatively myself.
Nathaniel Larrabee my painting professor from the Columbus College of Art and Design taught me so much about painting and what it means to be an artist and greatly influenced my desire to teach. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I idolized my uncle Bob. He played football for the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. He was a Naval Commander and an F-4 Phantom pilot in the early 60's. He died in an attempt to land his F-4 on a carrier in the sea of Japan training pilots just before the Gulf of Tonken.
After I got over my uncle's death and the assasination of JFK I began my art education. I asked my mother to teach me how to use her graphing system to do a portrait of JFK from Life magazine. I was probably 10. I did the first sketch on the back of one of my father's green office forms. Then I did a final version on a nice piece of charcoal paper. The green sketch sold to a neighbor down the block. The big final version on nice paper was exhibited in the school arts and science fair. A curator from the local Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton Oklahoma saw the piece and included it in a show of amateur artists in the museum. I was hooked. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Walter King was born in Baltimore Maryland in 1952. His family left the ethnically diverse city about the time the Civil Rights movement was beginning to heat up in 1959 moving to Lawton Oklahoma and later to Tulsa in 1965 around the time that Viet Nam was becoming a serious issue in the news. He graduated from Memorial High School in 1970. He particpated in activities connected to the first Earth Day celebrations.
His family ran a small Arts and Crafts store and frame shop where he organized a corner gallery to show his own work as well as the work of a few friends. He also began experimenting with a variety of artists’ materials and used the back room late at night after business hours to teach himself to paint.
Tulsa in the early 70’s was a booming music town. Walter often designed posters for local singer songwriters-- the only other artists he knew at the time. Leon Russell built his recording studios which attracted national and international level musicians like JJ Cale, Eric Clapton and even George Harrison. In 1972 Walt had his first solo exhibition at a large night club called “The Power Plant” where he met JJ Cale one night and other studio musicians from Russell’s entourage. His work from that time included elements that have stayed in his art over the years, ladders, windows, overlayed patterning with figures and the use of spray paint and stenciling.
Most of that work burned up in a fire sometime later. But his penchant for complex compositions with multiple images had already begun.
6 years after High school his brother gathered up his work in a portfolio and got him a scholarship to the Columbus College of Art and Design. Walter had had no interest in attending art school but the free scholarship seemed like an honor and he was convinced to go.
He graduated in '81, did a semester at Wichita State in their graduate painting program as a teaching fellow then went to Boston University and got his MFA in '85. He studied with James Weeks, Joe Ablow and Robert D'Arista and assisted Reed Kay in his painting techniques class. He also met the artists Jacob Lawrence, Elmer Bischoff, Robert DeNiro Sr. and Raphael Sawyer.
Walt began teaching at the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1985. He was the Chairman of the Illustration Dept. for 7 years and now is senior faculty in Illustration. His work has been shown around the country and internationally. (see exhibitions)
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