Imagination & Initiation
Contemporary Artist Series 2009
The 2009 Contemporary Series will feature
five solo exhibits by artists of varied style
and approach to provide insight into
their personal journeys.
John Kingerllee
March20, 2009 - April 26,, 2008
John Kingerlee was born Birmingham, UK in 1936, and grew up in London. He had an early interest in art, which was encouraged when he attended a boarding school in Exeter. Kingerlee's early representational paintings were influenced by Surrealism, expecially the work of Dali. He has acknowledged an affinity to a core group of artists: Kurt Schwitters, the Dada masters of collage, Braque, Picasso, Klee and others. The American Abstract Expressionists Pollock and de Kooning are both highly regarded by him. Kingerlee's life is a powerful dynamic; the solitude in Ireland has a bustling complement. Kingerlee spends five months each year in Granada, Spain and in Morocco. A favorite activity in those places is spending the day sketching the exotic people that stream past him. One can imagine him building up a supply of human imagery to sustain him and his art back in Ireland.
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