Kimball Jenkins presents a highly anticipated art event featuring an exhibition of five master artists and seasoned educators in New Hampshire. The Carolyn Jenkins and Jill C. Wilson galleries will be immersed with large-scale works of art by contemporary New Hampshire artists Richard Haynes, Dustan Knight, Patricia Schappler, Marcus Greene and Patrick McCay.
A public opening reception will be held June 10 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Kimball Jenkins campus; live music, light fare and conversations with the artists will be featured. The exhibition will serve as the centerpiece for educational programs held at Kimball Jenkins during the summer, including a seven-week mural and creative placemaking internship program for teens, and eight-week summer camp. The youth in both programs will have the opportunity to work with and learn from the master artists in workshops and presentations throughout the summer.
Richard Haynes is an American visual storyteller and cultural keeper. Through his art, Haynes draws attention to the invisible in this world, and to provoke unity. His work exemplifies the poetic and metaphoric ability of paintings to be a reflection of oneself. In addition to painting, Haynes is a photographer, educator, lecturer, mentor, and a strong advocate for social justice. Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, Haynes served in the Air Force during the Vietnam era. He received his master’s degree in fine arts in New York from Pratt Institute in 1979. Today, Hanes is the associate director of admissions for diversity at the University of New Hampshire.
Dustan Knight is a purposeful and emotionally charged artist, receiving her master’s degree in fine arts from Pratt and another master’s degree from Boston University. Knight leads workshops that exemplify the gestural and often intangible aspects of monoliths in our natural settings, pulling in materials that lend themselves to intense motions and gestures. The practice of scenic art-making which transcends picturesque landscapes in a lineage of New England artistic expression is both inspiring and a challenge to more static modes of representation. The jagged and rich three-dimensional passages of mixed media draw the viewer in for vast depths of wonder and stimuli.
Patricia Schappler holds her bachelor’s degree in fine arts from UNH and a master’s degree in fine arts from Brooklyn College. Schappler is an instructor and nationally recognized figurative artist. Her work delves into the lovable monstrosity of human relationships with one another, within their domiciles and within themselves. The subject at the core is the culture of a model, the meaning and symbolism within their lives, the narrative behind the subject is a rich tapestry of the phenomenological. The larger-than-life work invites the viewer to gain insight into the relationship Schappler is enveloped in whilst rendering her journey through the context of each art piece.
Marcus Greene is a painter and educator who is classically trained and critically informed. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Indiana University. For two decades Greene has shared his experience and knowledge with mentees from SCAD, St. Louis University and NHIA/NEC. His work plays out scenes that span multidimensional escapades through memories and nebulas into microscopic life forms. His colors, geometries, and individual characters are set in motion in orchestrated accidents captured in gesture and paint.
Patrick McCay is an Irish-born Scottish artist who completed undergraduate and graduate studies in Fine Arts at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland; McCay holds a second masters in fine arts from the University of Notre Dame. He teaches painting at the New England College. His work lies between the literal and the abstract, revisiting and re-stating iconic images in Landscape. McCay sees the work as editorialized flashes and fragments of our own experiences re-contextualized in more personal visual interpretations. He seeks to ask the onlooker to suspend their own visual voice in the temporary acceptance of someone else’s.
The exhibition will run from June 8 through Aug. 19. Gallery hours and events can be found by visiting kimballjenkins.com.