Roy Kinzer
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Abstrakt
Statement:
urban self-similarity
My paintings focus on the city and the random fractal patterns formed by integrating road maps with satellite images. For the past several years my work has explored the self-similar patterns that occur freely in nature. These fractal patterns have the same contours when focusing in or zooming out, so that a grain of sand can have the same outline as the coastline of a continent. My current work extends this to urban cityscapes that repeat the same shapes and structures across different scales. Each element holds within it the same properties as the larger system. Dense areas alternate with empty space. Small networks and clusters can have the same outlines as city limits and borders.
I try to create a sense of isolation, fantasy and exaggeration by using the overhead perspective of the satellite, void of inhabitants, and by disrupting the cityscape below with scratches, scrape marks and bleached-out light. These gestures visually tear into the repetitive fabric of the cityscape, eating into the surface like atmospheric disturbances. I then carefully layer a filligree of collaged roads that hold everything together in a web. The final painting is encased in multiple layers of mediums and varnish to create a totally smooth, flat surface.
I see my paintings in the tradition of the Hudson River School painters who used perspective, magnified scale and dramatic lighting to explore the Sublime, the feeling of rapture or awe caused by the beauty and terror of nature. I use the same effects to visualize a modern Sublime where technology magnifies the patterns of urban self-similarity.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
EDUCATION
1995 MFA, Vermont College, Norwich University, Montpelier, VT
1979 Certificate of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
1978 Studied, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED AWARDS AND ACQUISITIONS
2008 Corporate Acquisition, International Multiple
Sclerosis Management Practice (IMSMP), NY, NY
Curator’s Choice Award, Albright Knox Collector’s
Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2003-04 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artist Grant, NY
2004 Finalist, Sky lobby mural, Jersey City Medical
Center, Jersey City, NJ
1992 Museum Acquisition, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair,
NJ
1986 Museum Acquisition, Slater Memorial Museum,
Norwich, CT
1986 Fellowship, New Jersey State Council for the Arts
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2008 Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Hackensack, NJ
2007 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2004 domoGallery, Summit, NJ
1995 Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
1994 The Sculpture Center, NYC
1991 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
1990 Julian A. McPhee Gallery, California Polytechnic
State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA
1988 Coup de Grace, Hoboken, NJ
1987 McFall Center Gallery, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, OH
1986 J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
1984 Illinois Center, Tower Two, Chicago, IL
J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Hoboken Cultural Council, Hoboken, NJ
Unicorn Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Summer Selections, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Denise Bibro Fine Art,
New York, NY
Red Dot, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Albright Knox Collector’s Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007 Red Dot, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL
Painter’s Process, curated by Bruce Wall,
Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA
Red Dot, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Art Miami, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Miami, FL
2007 The Landscape, Montpelier Art Center,
Laurel, MD
2006 Winter Salon, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Invitational, Denise Bibro Fine Art,
New York, NY
Affordable Art Fair Booth B13, Denise Bibro Fine Art,
New York, NY
2005-06 Toast, Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour, New York, NY
Math, Mazes and Maps, curated by Peter Jacobs,
Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2004 Breathing Space, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Brooklyn, NY
2003-04 Fine Art Auction, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2001 Artist in the New Millennium, Bertone Gallery,
Montclair, NJ
1995 What is the Connection? Trans Hudson Gallery,
Jersey City, NJ
1994 Rutgers National 1994, Works On/Of Paper, Stedman Art
Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Rutgers University,
Camden, NJ
1993 Drawing Show, B4A Gallery, New York, NY
The American Dream, Montclair Art Museum,
Montclair, NJ
Spring Benefit, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1992 Faculty Exhibition, Montclair Art Museum,
Montclair, NJ
The Norwich Artists Invitational,
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Second Fine Art Auction, Montclair Art Museum,
Montclair, NJ
Recent Acquisitions, Montclair Art Museum,
Montclair, NJ
Choice, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1991 TAWA/ALJIRA Exchange Exhibition, Trenton State
Museum, Trenton, NJ
The ALJIRA Fine Art Auction, Gateway Center,
Newark, NJ
Choices, ALJIRA, Newark, NJ
Artists in Response to the War Part One, Kentler
International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Part Two, B4A Gallery, New York, NY
Out Loud: Artist Engulfed Against War,
Art in General, New York, NY
1990 Auction for Action, ACT UP, Paula Cooper Gallery,
New York, NY
Freedom of Expression, Cleveland State University Art
Gallery, CSU, Cleveland, OH
The Redefinition of the Family, Jefferson Trust,
Hoboken, NJ
1987 Chicago International Art Exposition, Hokin/Kaufman
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fellowship Exhibition, NJSCA - Visual Arts Fellowship
Recipients, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Coup de Grace, Hoboken, NJ
1985 J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Close Enough, 10 on 8, New York, NY
Hopogan Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Hoboken Artists, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts,
Summit, NJ
Panels and Portraits, Hopogan Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
1982 Pier C Show, Hoboken Cultural Council, Hoboken, NJ
1980 Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
1978 Fellowship Exhibition, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Gehman, Geoff, “Painting As Emotional Weathervane”,
The Morning Call, Bethlehem, PA, review, p. 42.
2006 McAdams, Shane, “Talking Shop with Denise Bibro Fine
Art”, Chelsea Now,
New York, NY,October 20 – 26, photo and review, p. 26.
1993 "Exploring the Male Archetype", TGIF, Channel 5,
Litchfield County, CT, May 21, 8-9 p.m.
1992 Hall, Nancy, "Home Folks on Display", Norwich
Bulletin, CT, June 22, photo and review, p. C1.
1991 Watkins, Eileen, "Montclair Museum Posts Warning on
Controversial Paintings", The Sunday Star Ledger, NJ,
January 6, photo and review, p. 16.
Firkser Pearson, Robin, "Urban Studies", Garden
State, Home & Garden, Moranville, NJ, January, photos
and review, p. 9-11.
1990 Zimmer, William, The New York Times, NY, December 9,
review, p. 20.
The Gold Coast, Hoboken, NJ, November 22-29, p. 16.
1990 "Hoboken and Jersey City Artists to Exhibit", Hudson
Reporter, Hoboken, NJ, November 7-14,
photo & review, p. 5.
"Art Events", Pacific Coast, Shell Beach, CA,
May, p.34.
1990 FOCUS, San Luis Obispo, CA, May 19-25, photo, p. 23,
1989 "One Room Three Views", House Beautiful,
New York, NY, November-February, photo's, p. 47-49.
1988 "Hoboken Studio Tour", The Gold Coast, Hoboken, NJ,
October 20-27, cover photo and review, p. 14.
Greenstein, Jane, "Kinzer Show is Provocative", The
Gold Coast, Hoboken, NJ, April 14-21,
photo and review, p. 25,26.
Greenstein, Jane, "Kinzer Work Ripples With Tension",
The Gold Coast, Hoboken, NJ, April 15,
photo and review, p. 21.
1987 "NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition", catalogue of
exhibition at The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ,
June 6 - August 17, photo, p. 15.
1987 "Exhibit Shows New Talent", The Gold Coast,
Hoboken, NJ, January 25, photo and review, p. 25.
Zimmer, William, "A Broad Sweep of Works in a Gallery
Not Much Bigger Than a Broom Closet", The New York
Times, New York, NY, January 11, photo and review.
1986 Norwich Bulletin, Norwich, CT, September 23,
photo and announcement, p. 20.
Burlingame, Michael, "Kinzer Conjures Alienation,
Humor", The Day, New London, CT,
October 5, photo and review, p. C3, C20.
Art Now, Gallery Guide, Chicago, Midwest edition, March, cover and feature article, p. 4, 9.
Art Now, Gallery Guide, U.S.A., National edition, March, Midwest edition cover
and feature article, p. MW-4, 9.
1984 "Art In The Windy City", Chicago, Chicago, IL, May, p. 82.
1983 Zimmer, William, "From Hoboken to Summit, Not To Mention Jersey City", The New York Times, New York, NY, October 2, review, p. 28.
1982 The Village Voice, New York, NY, September, p. 65.
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