Kevin Appel was born in Los Angeles, California and currently lives and Works in Los Angeles, California.Kevin Appel's paintings for the past ten years have addressed the relationship between physical space, architecture, and the painted image. Currently, this interest has turned toward representing an illogical relationship between an iconic architectural representation of a home and its natural surroundings.



Gravity has given way to a cataclysmic albeit humorous amalgamation of American vernacular architecture and modern structures impaled by caricatured trees and logs. The house form is abstracted and manipulated; multiplied, overlaid and folded into itself to create an uneasy narrative of muscular upheaval. The current paintings follow an approximation of perspectival convention as it pertains to representation, but this effect is not tied to any outlying origin. The causal forms are primal structures--simultaneously recalling a child's drawing of home and the architecture of the American frontier.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005

? Wilkinson Gallery, London, England

? Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2004

? Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

? Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, New York

2003

? Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel, Museo Rufino Tamayo,

? Mexico City, Mexico

2002

? Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2001

? Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City

1999

? Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

? citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award,

? Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1998

? Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1996

? Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, California

1994

? Food House, Santa Monica, Californi

Conclusions:

Kevin Appel's paintings for the past ten years have addressed the relationship between physical space, architecture, and the painted image.The current paintings follow an approximation of perspectival convention as it pertains to representation, but this effect is not tied to any outlying origin.

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