Alex Kanevsky

Alex Kanevsky, T.S., 2003, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches
Alex Kanevsky, T.S., 2003, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches

Exhibitions

News

Alex Kanevsky featured in the Huffington Post

March 29, 2013

March 26, 2013 Huffington Post Anyone can tell you who's already made it, but HuffPost Arts & Culture's On Our Radar series is here to tell you who's about to blow up -- and, in some cases, go pop.

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Woodmere show is more a Doris Staffel-and-friends tribute – Alex Kanevsky

November 23, 2012

August 2012 The Philadelphia Inquirer Article by Edward Sozanski The other major component of Kanevsky's work is multiple vision, drawings that are obsessive re-drawings that imply movement and a search for the perfect line.

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About

Painter Alex Kanevsky captures movement and time’s constant flow in canvases that resist adherence to a single moment, or even a single reading. Like the unreliable nature of memory and the imprecise atmosphere of poetry, Kanevsky’s multilayered works provide more questions than answers. These paintings combine abstraction and figuration in layered, painterly compositions in which the artist strives to convey his own personal and particular view of the world with clarity. This process produces compositions that shimmer with a kind of Futurist velocity, while at the same time capturing a serene feeling of stillness.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020           Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019           Alex Kanevsky: Liberation and Disorientation, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY

2018           Galerie Guido Romero Pierini, Paris, France

2017           Some Paintings in No Particular Order, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY

2016           Foster Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

2015           Unstable Equilibrium, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Fransisco, CA

2015           Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY

2014           Beautiful and Profound Paintings, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

2014           Alex Kanevsky, Scarfone/Hartly Gallery at University of Tampa, FL

2013           The Fox and The Hedgehog, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012           Barbara Frigerio Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy

2012           Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2012           Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA

2011           J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

2010           Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009           J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

2008           Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007           J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

2006           Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada

2005           Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004           Short Focus Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2004           Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2003           Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003           J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, NY

2002           Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2001           Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000           Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1998           Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1997           Merrimack College, Andover, MA

1995           Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020           Figure as Form, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY

2019           SHIFT, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2018           The Figure: The Indicative and the Allusive, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE

2018           Disrupted Realism, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2018           Five at Nine, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY

2017           Ethics of Depiction, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI

2017           A More Perfect Union? Power, Sex, and Race in the Representation of Couples, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2016           More Than Your Selfie, New Museum, Los Gatos, CA

2015           The More The Merrier, Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013           Body Politic, National Arts Club, New York, NY

2013           The Philadelphia Story, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

2012           Annual Show, Royal Society of British Artists, London, UK

2011           Equus – The Art of the Horse, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2011           Being Body / Exhibited Bodies, Barbara Frigerio Gallery, Milan, Italy

2010           Remnants, Fuse Gallery, New York, NY

2009           Five Artists of Accomplishment from PAFA, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2009           The Morbid Anatomy Cabinet, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2008           Images from North Mayo, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland

2007           True Love Always, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004           Pittura e fotografia dal punto di vista dell’occhio modern, Castell Welsberg, Italy

1999           The Edge of Vision, The Edge of Sight, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

1997           Contemporary Landscape, The Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art – Ursinius College, Collegeville, PA

1994           Double Exposure, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Awards and Honors

2012         Art Residency, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA, USA

2008         Painting Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

2007         Painting Residency, Eagle Hill Foundation, Steuben, ME

2006         Painting Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

2004         Painting Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

2003         Grant for Painting, Franz and Virginia Bader Fund

2003         Residency Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland

2002         Painting Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

1997         Painting Fellowship, Pew Fellowship in the Arts

1994         Painting Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1993         Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Painting

1993         Mary Townsend & William Clarke Mason Memorial Prize for Sculpture

1992         William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship

1992         Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial Award

1992         Pearson Memorial Prize for Painting

Selected Public Collections

Woodmere Art Museum
Philadelphia Legions of Honor Museum | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Education

1989 – 93     Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1980 – 83     Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania