"Water Dance"
An Exhibition of Abstract Paintings
by Kenneth Losey
Sonoma State University English Department
Nichols Hall, Room 362
August 30, 2005 - January 31, 2006
(707) 664-2140 ~ www.sonoma.edu/english
"Looking Back at Themselves" 2004
Mixed media on canvas
$500
About the Art
With this group of paintings I continue to explore the possibilities of mixed media, with the overall goal of striking a balance between representational and abstract. Two of the more representational pieces - "Looking Back at Themselves" and "Cirque Ancien" - include attachments of canvas, burlap, felt, and paper in addition to acrylic paint on canvas. In "Deep Square" pieces of canvas, felt, terry cloth, velum, and embroidery thread float at various levels in a deep purple space, and "Three Crescents" adds a long pine needle, suspended by embroidery thread in front of a piece of black felt.
About the Artist
As a teenager in rural Ohio I drew National Geographic photographs with pen and ink, and drew cartoons for a weekly newspaper that my brother edited. While studying philosophy and psychology at Oberlin I was more interested in books than art, and though I took no art classes at that time I continued to draw - for fun and to record dream images. After studying mythology briefly at the University of Chicago I headed west to Seattle, then south to California. While working at a book store in Santa Rosa I took home books on the artists I liked: Kandinsky, Miro, Klee, Frankenthaler, and others. Though I have taken some art classes in recent years, I am primarily self-taught as a painter.
Thank you for looking at my paintings.
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