Ken Marchione
Works Progressing

"Hjuki and Bil Have Had Their Fill", acrylic and oil on canvas

Exhibition Dates: August 9 - September 16, 2021
Artist Talk & Closing Reception: September 10 @ 5:30pm
Sponsored by Kestrel Construction Services

​This solo exhibition is a collection of work produced between 2018 and 2021 and consists of a mix of drawings, paintings, and collages. The exhibition will be available for viewing in-person by appointment. It is strongly encouraged that visitors who are not fully vaccinated wear an appropriate mask or face covering.
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ARTIST BIO
Ken Marchione is an artist and educator currently serving as Interim Dean at the PrattMWP College of Art and Design. His work has been widely exhibited in the Northeast. Before serving as Interim Dean, Ken taught 2-D Design, Drawing and Painting as a Professor of Painting and Drawing.  Ken came to Utica after serving as Director of Art for the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford, Connecticut. As art curator for the Stamford Museum, Ken organized numerous exhibitions over a six year period and was feature in the New York Times article "'What Are We Going to Put On the Gallery's Wall?' Five Curators of Contemporary Art Make the Case for Their Choices" by William Zimmer.

ARTIST STATEMENT
“While my formal objectives, influences, and stylistic choices reveal themselves on the surface, the motivational aspect are reflections of life that address the mysteries, ironies, and humors of what compels me to take the first steps through morning’s door, the last thoughts before sleep, and the first marks on the page.

Daily interactions that float between the observed, the reflected, and the memory, and vacillates through seconds, minutes or hours building to comprehension. I will experience laughter numerous times today, but I expect it will come in from many forms and prompts. So, if I were to paint laughter, the image could be a person, a comics-strip, a verse, a pattern, or a shape. The story builds in the process of creation and is best when told with a few surprises.”