Kevin  Paulsen  –  A  Splendid  Vision  

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“Paulsen’s  art  is  all  about  gentle  decay  –  distressed,  faded,  sob:  another  America  where  dramacc  natural  landscapes  are  juxtaposed  with  industrial  architecture,  glorified  first  in  the  1800s  and  again  now.”  

 -­‐  Carol  Newman  “The  Muralist’s  Muses.”  World  of  Interiors  Magazine.  October  2010  

Press Release (10/14/14) KENISE BARNES FINE ART 1947 PALMER AVENUE

LARCHMONT, NY 10538

GALLERY I

Dates: November 8 – December 23, 2014

Kevin Paulsen – A Splendid Vision: new paintings and drawings Kenise Barnes Fine Art is delighted to announce Kevin Paulsen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Paulsen, an American artist born in Missouri, has a devoted international following and an extensive exhibition history. He has distinguished himself as an artist whose vision is paradoxically naïve looking yet deeply informed by art history and well established in the canon of contemporary art. Paulsen’s artwork is singular in the narrative it presents. He portrays civilization, half mythical, half historical, depicting nature and man in primordial and sometimes precarious harmony. The artist conjures a utopia in which man and beast frolic, harvest, dance, and work, in blissful co-existence. The viewer senses that the balance of the theatrical scene is momentary and could be upended by dark forces. Paulsen’s paintings and drawings are direct and earnest; we feel his urgency to capture the subject and record it before his fantastical vision dances away. The artist as shamanistic puppeteer is felt strongly in each narrative he creates. Stylistically, Paulsen’s painting evokes vernacular style that recalls the tradition of Early American folk muralists and pays homage to man’s predilection for storytelling, illustration and decoration. Paulsen’s paintings appear to be made as a fresco, with uneven edges, (actually polystyrene topped with a thin veneer of pigmented plaster) floating within the frame. Cracks and fissures and areas of intentional distress are intrinsic to the surface and introduce a quality of unpredictability and allude to the passage of time.

November  8  –  December  23,  2014  

Kevin Paulsen Exhibitions (Selected) 2014 Kevin Paulsen, Splendid Vision, Nov. – Dec., Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Process/Two Artist/Kevin Paulsen and Joe Concra, Jun – July, Gráficas, Nantucket, MA Bergdorf Goodman, 7th floor, May - August, New York, NY 2012 Nantucket House Antiques and Interior Design, Nantucket, MA 2011 Bergdorf Goodman 7th floor and windows along 5th Ave, New York, NY Gráficas, Nantucket, MA Nantucket House Antiques and Interior Design, Nantucket, MA 2010 Kevin Paulsen, Alternative Poetry, Sept., Kelley Roy Gallery, Miami FL 2010 Nantucket House Antiques and Interior Design, Nantucket, MA 2009 Summer Exhibition, August–Sept., Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT Nantucket House Antiques and Interior Design, Nantucket, MA Nathan Turner Interior Design, Los Angeles, CA. 2008 Kevin Paulsen, Kelley Roy Gallery, Miami, FL Nantucket House Antiques and Interior Design, Nantucket, MA Nathan Turner, Los Angeles, CA Tyler Taylor Fine Art, New Canaan, CT 2007 Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY

David Findlay Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Gore Dean, Washington, DC 2005 David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY L&E Reid Fine Art and Antiques, New Preston, CT 2004 Wetmore & Buchheit Land and Estate Brokers, Woodstock, VT L&E, Nantucket, MA 2003 Wright Gallery, Kingston, NY L&E, Nantucket, MA David Findlay Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Deconstructing the Theorem (Drawings), July, Wright Gallery, Kingston, NY Looms Gallery, Nantucket, MA 2001 Wayne Pratt Inc., South Woodbury, CT 2000 New Canaan Society of the Arts, New Canaan, CT 1999 Woodard & Greenstein, New York, NY 1998 William Rowe Gallery, Nantucket, MA 1997 William Rowe Gallery, Nantucket, MA Collections and Commissions (selected)

Un4tled  (Outskirts)  14,  2014,  charcoal  and  chalk  on  paper  42  x  19  inches  (framed),  $3,500  

David Findlay Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Gore Dean, Washington, DC 2005 David Findlay Jr. Gallery, New York, NY L&E Reid Fine Art and Antiques, New Preston, CT 2004 Wetmore & Buchheit Land and Estate Brokers, Woodstock, VT L&E, Nantucket, MA 2003 Wright Gallery, Kingston, NY L&E, Nantucket, MA David Findlay Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Deconstructing the Theorem (Drawings), July, Wright Gallery, Kingston, NY Looms Gallery, Nantucket, MA 2001 Wayne Pratt Inc., South Woodbury, CT 2000 New Canaan Society of the Arts, New Canaan, CT 1999 Woodard & Greenstein, New York, NY 1998 William Rowe Gallery, Nantucket, MA 1997 William Rowe Gallery, Nantucket, MA Collections and Commissions (selected)

Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY Willow Creek Farm, Broadlands, VA Blue Smoke Restaurant, New York, NY American Seasons Restaurant, Nantucket, MA Moona Restaurant, Nantucket, MA Over 80 Private Collections in the U.S. Canada, England, France, Germany and India Bibliography (selected) 2011 Scribble08 by Mark Murphy 2010 World Of Interiors, December 2010 2007 Chronogram, February (Cover) 2006 House Beautiful Traditional Home, November New York Home, September/October 2005 Traditional Home, December 2003 Northeast Journal Arts and Antiques, August Nantucket Home, June Nantucket Today, November/December 2001 Traditional Home, March 2000 Classic American Homes, April//May

1999 New York Times Currents, February 23 1998 Architectural Digest, September Featured in the books: At Home in Nantucket by Lisa McGee with photographs by Paul Whicheloe Living Color by Gary Mcbournie

Babel  Launch,  2014  acrylic  and  plaster  on  polystyrene  

46  x  70  inches  48  x  72  inches  (framed)  

$14,000  

 

Bona  Dea  3,  2014  acrylic  and  plaster  mounted  on  board  

37.5  x  56  inches  38.75  x  56.5  inches  (framed)  

$11,000  

Harves4ng  Pearls,  2014,  acrylic  and  plaster  on  linen  mounted  on  panel,  

48  x  60  inches  $11,000  

The  Last  Bas4on  3  (Twilight),  2014  plaster  and  acrylic  on  comon  velvet  mounted  on  panel  

53.5  x  72  inches  $14,000  

Christened  Listener  2,  2014  acrylic  and  plaster  on  polystyrene  mounted  in  box  frame  45  x  45  inches  (unframed)  (var.)  48  x  48  inches  (framed)  $11,000  

 

Last  Bas4on  1  (Solar  Eclipse)  (Encampment,  abandoned  viewing  plaOorm),  2014  50.75  x  74  inches  

acrylic  and  plaster  on  velour,  mounted  on  panel  $15,000  

Un4tled  (Clay  Pipe),  2014  acrylic  and  plaster  on  polystyrene  

14  x  39.5  inches  $4,500  

Blue  Boots  (Red  Hair,  Blue  Shoek),  2013  acrylic  and  plaster  on  red  polyester  mounted  on  panel  41  x  36  inches  $8,000  

Last  Bas4on  4  (Outskirts),  2014  55  x  64  inches  

acrylic  and  plaster  on  velour,  mounted  on  panel  $14,000  

Outskirts  (Corvid  and  Queen),  2014  acrylic  and  plaster  on  polyester  mounted  on  panel  

36  x  60  inches  $11,000  

Outskirts  (Surrender)  (Abandoned  Viewing  PlaOorm),  2014  acrylic  and  plaster  on  theatre  velvet  mounted  on  panel  

48  x  72  inches  $14,000  

Un4tled  (Outskirts)  7,  2014  charcoal  and  chalk  on  paper  24  x  18  inches  (framed)  $1,800  

Un4tled  (Outskirts)  1,  2014  charcoal  and  chalk  on  paper  24  x  18  inches  (framed)  $1,800  

Right:  Un4tled  (Outskirts)  13,  2014  charcoal  and  chalk  on  paper  18  x  24  inches  (framed)  $1,900  

Leb:  Un4tled  (Outskirts)  6,  2014  charcoal  and  chalk  on  paper  18  x  24  inches  (framed)  $1,800  

Above:  Un4tled  (Outskirts)  10,  2014  charcoal  and  chalk  on  paper  24  x  18  inches  (framed)  $1,800  

Below:  Un4tled  (Outskirts)  7B,  2014  charcoal  and  chalk  on  paper  18  x  24  inches  (framed)  $1,800  

“Paulsen’s  adaptacons  of  the  19th-­‐century  pamerned  wall  treatments  are  gutsy  and  bold,  nothing  like  the  polite  imitacons  

done  by  others  today.”      

-­‐  Carol  Newman  “The  Muralist’s  Muses.”  World  of  Interiors  Magazine.  October  2010