Press
"Kenn Kotara's work dwells on issues of both painting and drawing through an exploration of the sinuous nature of lines as well as the expressive possibilities of repeated forms and gestures."
Mathew Drutt, Associate Curator of Research, S. R. Guggenheim Museum
"Only a draftsman could accomplish these pieces, and yet draftsmanship is somehow irrelevant to them. They are portraits of thought." Commentary on Kenn's work."
David Brendan Hopes
Asheville Citizen-Times
"one sought a sort of repose in several monochrome drawings, and why they also are more memorable in retrospect than many other things. For example, Kenn Kotara’s hazy and lyrical charcoal compass curves, which appeared to be randomly-arranged bisections of a grid structure, suggested motion and music – an ephemeral sublime.”
Jean Hess, Art Papers
January 2012
Asheville Citizen Times, Living Section
Inspiration by Design. Pecha Kucha Presentation Series
Article, by Carol Motsinger, Photography John Fletcher
November, 2011
Rapid River Arts
Expressions of Inquisitivity: The Art of Kenn Kotara by Janiece Marie Meek. November Issue
February, 2011
Bold Life. Western North Carolina's arts and culture monthly
"Square Roots" by Joanne O'Sullivan, Photography by Rimas Zailskas. February Issue
September, 2010
"the bucket, the water the well," Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Exhibition review by Lauren Turner
September, 2007
American Press
"petite cheniere", Solo Installation, Abercrombie Gallerie,
McNeese State University,
Lake Charles, L.A
Installation review by Warren Arceneaux
April, 2007
Atlanta Journal Constitution. Visual Arts Architecture
"New Paintings: Tania Becker" and "Stratum: Kenn Kotara.
Exhibition review
by Debra Wolf
March, 2006
WNC Woman Magazine "Men plan, Women perceive", Kenn Kotara Profile
Profile by Connie Bostic
