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Artist Statement:
In my artwork, I seek to celebrate life: the simple and spectacular images all around us. Art patrons admire my intense use of color and texture to enhance daily life and communicate my emotional reaction to beauty. I consider my style to be unique to me but I have been ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Come see my work in Towhee Hill Studio. I am now on the "Round The Mountain Trail". Hours are 3-5 Tuesdays and Thursdays or by appointment. Also, come see my work with Art Tour 10 at Gallery 108 April 2008.
Although I have been in many national and international ...
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Artist Galleries:
TOWHEE HILL STUDIO HOURS 3-5 Tuesdays and Thursdays or BY APPOINTMENT Radford, VA
THE GALLERY, Radford, VA
FINE ARTS CENTER FOR THE NEW RIVER VALLEY Pulaski, VA
OVER THE MOON, Floyd, VA
THE BELL GALLERY, Floyd, VA
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Collections:
Collections: I have paintings in private collections in Virginia, North Carolina, New Orleans, Texas, Florida, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, Pennsylvania,Indiana,and New York.
Most galleries that I work out of do not send the patron's name with the check and therefore I do not have an accurate ...
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Commissions:
Private Commissions:
Portraits: Miss Rebecca Yearout, Radford, VA
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mahin, Radford, VA
Mrs. Connie Stone, Radford, VA
Mrs. Peggy Shaw, Radford, VA
Genre Scenes: Mrs. Jonnie Collins, Radford, VA
Mrs. Laura Hammond, Radford, VA
Mr. and Mrs.Morris, Blacksburg, VA
Landscapes: George Filz, Blacksburg, VA
Esther Youngs, ...
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Reviews for Kendall Kessler:
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New Orleans Art Association's 10th National Exhibition. Art Critic Roger Green had this to say regarding the selection of the awards for the show: "Much more to this viewer's liking were several entries that did not win prizes, for example, "Stream" by Kendall F. Kessler of Blacksburg, Va....Stream a small loosely executed oil, pictures feather-looking grasses in orange, yellow, and green by the edge of a stream."
TWO VIRGINIA ARTISTS, Stanley Gallery, Ferrum College, Ferrum, Va. Art critic for the Roanoke Times, Ann Weinstein wrote:"She paints with thick interwoven strokes of oil that generate an independent surface activity. More than the sum of its parts, the complexitiy of the paint itself provides the imagery with an intrigue of texture, subtlety of color and an unexpected intensity of feeling."
DUAL IMAGES at North Cross School in Roanoke. Again Ann Weinstein reviewed the show and hailed it as " a very effective teaching device. It provides insight into the process of making choices that all artists are faced with, not only in medium and size, but in the arrangement of the basic formal elements of art."
LYNWOOD ARTISTS ANNUAL SHOW William G. White, Associate Professor of Art at Hollins College an established and respected oil and water color artist, had this to say about Kendall's award-winning entry into the Lynwood Artists Annual show at the Piedmont rtist Association in Martinsville, Va."Great deal of complexity...quite exciting visual image." Upon encountering Kendall's work again at the 1997 Fincastle Arts Festival he bestowed the Best in Show on Kendall's "Boat House, Mountain Lake.
ARTSPEAK Nov.Dec.'94 Will Grant wrote: "The American love of nature is seen in Kendall Kessler's painting of foliage or rich forest of deep greens, in soft pastel or oil.
Kendall's paintings were part of the group show, "Nature's Enchantment" at Agora Gallery on Broadway
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