About the Show

 

Artist Ron Kenedi’s “Winter’s End…New Beginnings” is abundant with engaging movement and expressive colors – from exuberantly vivid, to subtle and soothing. 

 

Although winter can be exhilarating, this exhibit calls us to come out of our quiet, hibernating state and reconnect with spring’s reassuring regeneration and knowledge. Kenedi does this by exploring a diverse range of subjects, from the Earth’s generous gifts of eggplants and tomatoes to the gentle grace of white birds flying between the moon and sun, a windswept tree leaning toward a river and beyond, or human interaction with nature, both the beneficial and destructive.  

 

Kenedi knows how to give the viewer a full experience, one that includes feeling his art, and helps us to traverse and germinate our own imagination, questions and our capacity to act.

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Artist Statement

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Artist Ron Kenedi talks about his show “Winter’s End…New Beginnings” at the Nevada City Winery Gallery.

 

This exhibit at the Nevada City Winery Gallery, “Winters End…New Beginnings” is a hopeful, stimulating, and invigorating portrayal of a better time to come. The goal with each of my pieces is to set a mood and tell a story that requires the viewer to participate on a visceral and intellectual level. I want my artwork to be a catalyst for the viewer’s own interpretation and provide meaning beyond the work itself.

 

Art can lift the soul and excite the mind, and my hope is that viewers will enjoy the show as much as I had in creating it.

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About the Artist

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Ron Kenedi’s artwork is a personal, vibrant reflection of the places and times he’s lived in. Born and raised in New York City, Kenedi came of age during the volatile and seminal 1960s. He attended Stony Brook University where he studied Fine Arts with mentors including Lawrence Alloway, Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, and other distinguished teachers. After college, Kenedi practiced stone lithography at the Art Students League in New York and taught figure drawing at the Mediterranean Institute in Deya, Majorca, Spain where he was on the faculty with Anthony Burgess and Colin Wilson.

 

As Kenedi’s technique evolved, his artwork began to take on a look and feel that was representative of his life’s diverse influences. It’s a style that is mostly figurative, focusing on presenting the essence of the subject. 

 

Ron has shown his artwork internationally and across the US, from New York to San Franisco. 

Locally in Nevada County, Kenedi had two previous shows, at the Nevada City Winery Gallery, he’s shown at Uba Seo and the Seven Stars Gallery. He has also exhibited several times at the Granucci Gallery at Center for the Arts and has been juried into exhibits for SYRCL’s “Wild and Scenic Film Festival”. Regionally, Kenedi has shown at the Blueline Gallery in Sacramento, and The Museum of Northern California (MoNCA) in Chico, CA. 

 

Most recently, Kenedi created all the artwork for “Wild Edges”, an interactive, environmentally themed outdoor performance piece, in Grass Valley, which later was exhibited at the Nevada County Rood center. Ron lives in Nevada City, CA where he enthusiastically paints in his studio.

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IG: @ronkenediart

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