Kevin Appel was born in Los Angeles, California and currently lives and Works in Los Angeles, California.Kevin Appel’s paintings for the past ten years have addressed the relationship between physical space, architecture, and the painted image. Currently, this interest has turned toward representing an illogical relationship between an iconic architectural representation of a home and its natural surroundings.
Gravity has given way to a cataclysmic albeit humorous amalgamation of American vernacular architecture and modern structures impaled by caricatured trees and logs. The house form is abstracted and manipulated; multiplied, overlaid and folded into itself to create an uneasy narrative of muscular upheaval. The current paintings follow an approximation of perspectival convention as it pertains to representation, but this effect is not tied to any outlying origin. The causal forms are primal structures–simultaneously recalling a child’s drawing of home and the architecture of the American frontier.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
• Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
• Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004
• Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, New York
2003
• Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel, Museo Rufino Tamayo,
• Mexico City, Mexico
2002
• Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2001
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City
1999
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
• citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award,
• Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1998
• Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1996
• Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, California
1994
• Food House, Santa Monica, Californi
Conclusions:
Kevin Appel’s paintings for the past ten years have addressed the relationship between physical space, architecture, and the painted image.The current paintings follow an approximation of perspectival convention as it pertains to representation, but this effect is not tied to any outlying origin.
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Hub of Contemporary Art and Artists
October 27th, 2009The Saatchi gallery, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985, is a London gallery for the exhibition of contemporary art. It is one of the best venues known for young and fresh artist to express or expose his/her work to the world. Works of local and international sculptors, painters, photographers and multimedia artists are displayed in this gallery. Saatchi gallery also introduced the open-access section, well-known as Your Gallery, where artists can upload arts and biographies onto their own page. On a given year over sixty million visitors around the globe access this venue using it as a medium of expression and acquiring knowledge. Furthermore, a tally reveals that there have been 1,000 school visits. Isn’t it jaw dropping? This gallery aims to encourage the art professionals and also holds valuable source of information for upcoming art fairs and exhibitions.
With its increasing popularity and people’s keenness towards art new moves have been adopted to notch up success in higher level. The gallery is presently refurbishing a 50,000-square-foot space to make it more spacious for art lovers. The architecture capacitates to enfold a bookstore, a coffee shop and also education purpose room for students inside the newly built building. Saatchi Gallery stands apart from conventional laws of art and based upon the principle of egalitarian approach which directly inspires the art connoisseurs. This London based gallery is open for every age and interest group and efforts are made to prop new and previously unexhibited artist and acts as a springboard for their careers.
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