Artist-in-Residence
Alex Kanevsky
IN STUDIO
Thursday, May 31, 2012 through
Saturday, June 30, 2012
ON EXHIBIT
Thursday, May 31, 2012 through
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Artist-in-Residence
Alex Kanevsky
While studying theoretical mathematics at the University of Vilnius in Lithuania (then part of the USSR), Alex Kanevsky made paintings in his spare time. He decided to turn professional after his arrival in the U.S. in 1983. Once enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he haunted galleries and museums in Florence and Paris, and observed art developments in New York. Soon the painter found his modus operandi, working principally from memory, aided at times by his own photographs or live models. Today he continues to structure his loosely representational pictures according to his sensations, rather than the dictates of narrative or strict naturalism.
Kanevsky’s pigment is applied with visible strokes and counterstrokes, which gives substance to his forms. He avoids strong contour lines, leaving his edges blurry. There is also an all-pervasive light in many of his works, though the illumination is not all-revealing. Instead, strongly communicating an emotional climate, the paintings are endowed with a sense of mystery.
(from Art in America, January 2011)
Solo Exhibitions (through 1990)
2010
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Proserpine, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Waves & X-Rays, Rosenfield Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Visitations, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Parlor Games, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Paintings, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
2005
Instance of Stillness, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Paitings, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Paintings & Photographs (together with Jon Redmond), J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
Photographs, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Short Focus Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2003
Short Focus Paintings, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mediated Pleasures, J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, NY
2002
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, NY
2000
Overwhelmed Portraiture, Philadelphia Art Alliance
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Strong Light Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
1998
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1997
Motion Paintings, Merrimack College, Andover, MA
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
1996
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1995
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Remnants, Fuse Gallery, NYC
Visual Voices, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University
2009
Fine Artists of Accomplishment, Somerville Manning Gallery
2008
Into Your Head, Hopkinson House Gallery of Contemporary Art, Haddon Township, NJ
Painterly Painting: The Next Level, The Art Museum of Los Gatos
Edwards Art Gallery, Holderness School, Plymouth, N.H.
2007
10 Year Anniversary, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Finding a Form: Influences in Figurative Paintings, Tower Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
True Love Always, curated by Rebecca Campbell, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
2006
Bader Fund, The First Three Years, Brady Art Gallery, G. Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Art 212, New York, NY
2005
Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
2005, 04, 03
US Artists, Philadelphia, PA
