Thoughts & Quotations
"If there's one thing I've learned, it's open your eyes, and open your mind. It’s a great big and beautiful world out there." Kenn Kotara
"I like to surprise myself. I have to be interested in what I’m doing. Surprise, for me, is as important as it is to anyone that views it once it becomes a painting." Lee Krasner
"The progression of a painter's work as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and the idea and the observer. To achieve this clarity is inevitably to be understood." Mark Rothko
News
"You can have it all", A group of One. Solo exhibition, multiple mediums. February 16th, 2012 Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College
Kotara returns to Mars Hill for another solo show. Installation includes all five mediums!
You can have it all, and all in one place!
Pecha Kucha - Friday January 27, 2012
Join Kenn and multiple high profile talented artists for a night of fabulous, high paced creative presentation - 20 images x 20 seconds each.
"Printing with the sun" Solar Plate workshop
A-B Tech College, June 2012, Asheville, NC
Commission 2012
Private residence commission. Canvas triptych, mixed media, Asheville, NC
Recent Press
"Expressions of Inquisitivity: The Art of Kenn Kotara" by Janiece Marie Meek. Rapid River Arts, November 2011 issue.
HBO series "Treme"
Kenn's work selected for HBO series "Treme"Kotara’s artwork is on display in an upscale restaurant for the HBO series, set in post Katrina New Orleans. . The second season aired in April 2011 with the upscale restaurant set featured in Episode 4. Set designer Tim Cohn, a Louisiana Tech classmate, saw Kotara’s work on a website Artistaday.com
(which posts a different artist daily to a global audience connecting artists to art lovers and professionals), after which Tim set the wheels in motion with HBO to acquire Kenn's work for the series.
Cover story "Square Roots", Bold Life Magazine
Western North Carolina's Arts and Culture magazine, February issue. www.boldlife.com
Commissions 2011
Mixed media on canvas for AdvancEd, Atlanta, GA.
Mixed media on canvas for SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
Exhibitions Ongoing & Upcoming in 2012
"You can have it all", A group of One. Solo exibition, Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC. February 16th , 2012
"Homage to the square," Asheville Art Museum, NC. Sept. 30, 2011 - March 4, 2012
"Bloom", Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL January 27 - March 11
“Walden” Braille series - "Code Work", Group Exhibition, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC. March 3 - April 6
"Waking up with Van Gogh," Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC. April 7 - July 29
"Southern Abstraction," Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. April - June
“High Five”, Representing highlights of the first five years of Cabarrus Arts Council, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC. August - October
