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Artist Statement:
Walter King, Professor, Visual
Communication, is full time
faculty at the Columbus
College of Art and Design. He
received a BFA in Illustration
from CCAD; an MFA in Painting
from Boston University; and
also studied painting at
Wichita State University. Mr.
King worked his way through
college as a graphic ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Art 68 at Coco 68,
Greenpoint, Brookly, NY
2009 Fire River, Summerfield
Studios, Columbus OH
2008 THE SPIRIT MOVES/The
Dance: Fort Hayes Shot Tower
Gallery, Columbus OH
2007 Timothy King and Walter
King: Drawings and
Watercolors, Maria Elena
Kravetz Gallery, Cordoba
Argentina
2007 Capital Art, Group ...
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Artist Galleries:
I am always open to new
possibilities...
The exhibition of watercolor
souvineers was, in fact,
exhibited at Maria Elena
Kravetz Galleria de Arte in
Cordoba Argentina July/August
of 2007. The paintings were
stolen by a cabby on the way
to the airport as I was
returning to the U....
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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 did a full color
illustration for the September
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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 temporal concerns slow down so that we might taste and feel and be and wonder. Many of the works have the feel of being underwater. The senses are bathed in amniotic fluid. Colors are ripe, luscious. King gives us the great love he bears.
-Leslie Constable,
The Columbus Dispatch
King's paintings address the dearth of spirituality in contemporary human affairs...he posits that painting can make a difference.
-Ann Cunningham
The Indianapolis Star
King’s paintings are deeply tranquil — just the right balm for a world in which what comes next often isn’t known.
-Bill Mayr
The Columbus Dispatch
It is best to describe King's work as spiritual. He uses religious, almost biblical imagery in many of the works, but King's purpose seems to be to move beyond the images- the literalness of religion to a more personal spirituality
...the serenity of the paintings...offer a strong sense of the comfort that comes from spiritual awareness or religious faith, "the peace that passes understanding."
...a celebration of the majesty and variety of nature, done through the wealth of colors King incorporates.
-James D. Watts Jr.
Tulsa World
Expressive color and surreal situations dominate King's work. King meets each surface with vigor seen in active brushstrokes and vibrant hues.
-Tracey Hummer
The Columbus Dispatch
An elusiveness about those paintings challenges the spectator's perception.
-Jacquieline Hall
Columbus Dispatch
King presses, from a limited vocabulary of forms the psychological drone that comes of processing students and others... in which curtains of figures and galloping horses, obsessively repeated are overcome by small armies of dots...incidentally, King's dots have many lives: Sometimes they resemble Pegboard holes. Other times they appear as small raised blobs of paint or as miniature flowers. In the case of the Artist's Mind, a work that sparkles with wry humor, the dots are bugs- brown and oval shaped. They are arranged in formation over a somewhat barren landscape. Kings use of pale pinks and ochres help set the painting's parched mood. Atop a double mountain range fringed with green vegetation, stands a forlorn, leafless tree- a sign of the artist- perhaps waiting for rain.
-Jeanne Fryer Kohles
The Columbus Dispatch
From the Drinking Sky Breathing Sea Catalog...
Walter King is a restless and unique artist whose multifaceted activity embraces drawing, illustration and painting, without leaving aside an intense career in advertising and teaching. In this last role, we had the opportunity to host him as part of our teaching staff in our previous season. Now he brings us a series of pictoral images in which, through a variety of techniques, he reveals an inner world rich in metaphysical suggestions, a product of tireless creative labor.
-Lic. Nora Hochbaum
Director General
Centro Cultural Recoleta
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Walter King (quien es, ademᳬ jefe del Departamento de Ilustració® ¤el Columbus College of Art and Design) define sus propios trabajos como "muy simb󬩣os. A veces misteriosos y tr᧩cos y otras humorí³´icos o subjetivos. Cat󬩣os, por momentos, en el sentido universal, no religioso. Quizá³ mí³´icos, aunque no creo necesariamente en la magia. Mí³´icos en el sentido surrealista, metafí³©co."
El golpe aní©co de los atentados del 11 de setiembre se refleja de manera sutil en su obra má³ reciente. King ve que ahora en ellos "hay un clima sombrí¯® Hay una forma de pensar má³ deprimida, alicaí¤¡ desde ese dí¡® Fue como una epifaní¡® Cuando mi trabajo se volvió ¡s sombrí¯ a partir de ese dí¡¬ comprendí £ó¯ habí¡ sido mi obra antes.
-as reported in Clarin
Buenos Aires,Argentina
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