Opening Reception: 6:30 -8:30 p.m., Friday, September 25
This fall 2015, we welcome Houston artist Michael Kennaugh for his first solo exhibition at AMSET. Kennaugh currently lives and works in Houston, but was born in Casper, Wyoming. He moved to Texas in 1965, and graduated from Lamar University in Beaumont with his BFA in 1986 and from the University of North Texas in Denton with his MFA in 1990. Kennaugh is known for his large, painterly abstract canvases with arabesque forms that lyrically sweep across the plane. Firmly grounded in drawing as his foundation, Kennaugh builds on these initial lines and creates shapes through an additive and subtractive process. He further develops his compositions with decisive and layered applications of grisaille tones and color hues as demanded by the shapes, yielding a physically invigorating and dynamic creation. This exhibition will feature many new works on canvas, as well as selected drawings and sculptures, which are akin to Kennaugh’s paintings in their focus on line, shape and form.
This exhibition is generously funded, in part, by:
Architectural Alliance: Ronald Jones and Rob Clark
Wallace S. Wilson
Cecily E. Horton
KME Salas O’Brien, LLC
Linda and George Kelly
Ilene and Paul Barr
Julie Kinzelman and Christopher Tribble
Julie and Blake Pratz
Rose and Doyle Daughtrey
Moody Gallery
City of Beaumont
Wesley W. Washburn, M.D. and Lulu L. Smith, M.D. Endowment Fund
Texas Commission on the Arts
C. Homer and Edith Fuller Chambers Charitable Foundation
