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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 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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Exhibitions for Kenneth Hall:
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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
Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
“Spatial Energies”
Arts Annex, Grandview, Ohio
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 "Resistance to Vision"
Manifest Creative Research Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
International Exhibit
Marziart International Gallery
Hamburg, Germany
Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art and Design
Issue No. 8
Exhibit-in-Print
Summer 2007
"Cultivate Beauty"
930 Gallery
Louisville, Kentucky
2006 "Night of 1,000 Drawings"
Artists Space
New York City, New York
2005 "Graduate Students of Miami University"
University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio
2004 “125th Annual Student Exhibit”
Juried Exhibition
Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design,
Columbus, Ohio
“One Night Stand”
Invitational
Ohio Art League Fundraiser, Columbus, Ohio
2003 “Emerging Artists”
Invitational
Art Access Gallery, Bexley, Ohio
2002 Ohio Art League Fall Juried Exhibition
Juried Exhibition (Juror: Paolo Morsiani, former curator of
PS 122) Fort Hayes Art Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
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