Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 80″ x 87″
Year: 1988
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Flight of Death
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Tumbling Dice
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Medium: Oil on CanvasSomebody Bigger Has Control of You
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Medium: Oil on CanvasKenneth Agnello
On April - 1 - 2009
Take a deep breath, I thought. You can say it; you can do it, and avoid following bandwagons. They are not what you are after. The cutting edge, to speak about people, about relationships, and to comment on all we witness-fears, shame, joys, and suspicions-this is your motive; this is what they will remember. Follow social and emotional commentary, but not too directly. Avoid the pitfall of too political a stance. Generalize messages, make their meaning universal, and modify personal specifics, so that the overview triggers a wealth of possibilities and varied interpretations. Leave the photojournalist to capture the historical moment. Save one-dimensional appeal for magazine cover girls, fashion models, and moneymakers. Transcend the times as you live them. And do not fear your audience is too small. Your goal is not to humor the passive tastes of the casual masses. Remember, too, that where the art world is cold, rejection is guaranteed, but just for the moment.
So the evolutionary cell in my thought process was planted at an early age: rooted in deep ties to the classic rock music stars of the age, who demonstrated seriousness of presence and passion, and then carrying on to the modern artists who focused on art for “people’s” sake, rather than an art for “art’s” sake. Composition, color, technique, and energy-exclusively through painting-are the tools used to carry out a credo hungry for the narrative, the thematic, and the real within the real. Sometimes the real is twisted, turned inside out or upside down, but is never dismissed, and I have never pained a fully
non-objective abstract work. Colors may vary in intensity and application, ranging in value or schemes. Broad passages of open color, applied much like a primer, are the first backdrop, the beginning, a foundation on which images emerge, off which the scene unfolds. Paint is often applied thickly, slashed about with thick brush or knife. Then, too, thinned paint is applied through more fluid arrangements, or is allowed to drip spontaneously, creating rainbow or rain-washed effects. As colors move, merge and overlap, the finished product is often one of chance, but the artist’s hand, wielding and manipulating, is never out of it. Be true to your experiences, true to yourself, and don’t flinch. Paint it like you meant it.
EDUCATION
Montclair State University Seton Hall University
Upper Montclair, N. J. South Orange, N. J.
M. A. Degree, Fine Arts, 1981 B. A. Degree, Art History, 1977
EXHIBITIONS
2001
Studio 4 west Gallery 1) April: Group Exhibition
4 Round House Road
Piermont, N. Y.
1996
Westbeth Gallery 1) May: 3rd Biannual Student $ Alumni 55:
55 Bethune Street Bethune Street Fine Art Exhibit
New York, N. Y. (Montclair, N.J. State University)
1993
Belgis Freidel Gallery 1) October: Group Exhibition
Prince Street
New York, N.Y.
1990
Outer Space Gallery 1) November: Group Exhibition
2710 Broadway 2) September: Beauty and Beast
New York, N.Y. 3) June: Appearance/Disappearance
1989
Outer Space Gallery 1) May: Artist’s Agonistes (Kenneth Agnello and Jeffrey Thompson)
Ledo Gallery 1) March: Salon West (Group Exhibition)
486 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, N.Y.
1988 1) December: Group Exhibit
Outer Space Gallery 2) November: Shared Risks: Kenneth Agnello and Jeffrey Toplin
3) September: Group Exhibit
4) June: Naked Male
5) February: Group Exhibit
Cork Gallery 1) March: Salon West Exhibit
Avery Fisher Hall
Concourse Level
Lincoln Center
65th Street & Broadway
New York, N.Y.
1987
Ledo Gallery 1) December: Group Exhibit
Outer Space Gallery 1) November: Solo Exhibit
The Emerging Collector 1) April: Group Exhibition
62nd Second Avenue
New York, N.Y.
1986
Outer Space Galley 1) December: Art on the Edge
2) November: Group Exhibit
The Emerging Collector 1) November: Group Exhibit
