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Indepth Arts News:
"PENNY KRONENGOLD : Horses, Carousels, Child's Play"
2010-03-30 until 2010-04-24
First Street Gallery
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
The First Street Gallery announces an exhibition of recent work by Penny Kronengold, opening on Tuesday, March 30 and continuing through Saturday, April 24. In 1996 the image of a powerful horse came to the artist and was quickly
realized in clay; this terracotta sculpture became the central figure in a group of paintings that Jed Perl, writing in The New Republic, called "deliriously sky-high fantasies, in which massive horses tumble from the heavens." The First Street Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com.
The horses reappeared in 2007 but with their power checked:
encased in glass vitrines, girded for war, or pinned to a carousel. The
current exhibition makes the carousel itself a key subject alongside the
horses, who refuse to be defined as painted wood figures. Sometimes they seem
to hover, turn back, or drive off the carousel altogether. The horses'
vitality derives partly from Kronengold's process. Her work begins as
sketches done rapidly on-site; she feels that the painting lurks behind the
sketch, and that the sketch retains its authority even as the painting
acquires a life of its own.
Kronengold's 2007 show was favorably reviewed by Lance Esplund, who wrote in
The New York Sun of "her wonderfully fluid line" and "Bonnardworthy
color." David Cohen, writing in The New York Sun and artcritical.com, noted
that Kronengold's "formal concerns amount to an almost alchemical duality of solid and transparent, mass and fluidity ╜ a collision of intense drawing
and ecstatic color."
She is represented in the Smithsonian Collection of the Library of Congress,
Mobil Oil, MCI Telecommunications and the Printmaking Workshop. In addition to
ten previous shows at the First Street Gallery, she has exhibited at the
Richard Stockton College Art Gallery, the Albright-Knox Members Gallery, the
Trenton City Museum, The Sculpture Center, the Lancaster Museum of Art and
Lori Bookstein Fine Art. Her work is reproduced in Tikkun and American Craft.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 AM to 6 PM. Photographs are
available upon request. Reviews, biographical information and images of the artist's work can be seen at absolutearts.com.
Visit First Street Gallery's Portfolio at absolutearts.ocm galleries.absolutearts.com/firststreetgallery
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