“It is the alternating sensation of security and threat, solidity and fragility, permanence and mutability characterizing contemporary dwelling that I seek to make palpable in my work”

The so-called blankness of northwest Ohio, moreover, where the artist currently lives, its lack of a highly defined landscape identity, makes it an ideal laboratory for Kanwischer’s efforts to construct and de-construct the meaning of ‘place’ in our lives.

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Charles Kanwischer received a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. in Painting/Printmaking fromYale University School of Art. Kanwischer taught at Amherst College, Yale University, and has been Associate Professor of Art at Bowling Green State University, Waterville, Ohio since 1997. He has had solo exhibitions at Raw and Co. Gallery Cleveland, OH and four solo shows at the Miller/Block Gallery in Boston, MA.

He has participated in many national and regional group exhibitions including "New Master Drawings," at the Akron Museum of Art, "Visions and Revisions, Art on Paper Since 1960" at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Annual Invitational Exhibition at the National Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC.

He is the recipient of numerous Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and is represented in a number of public and private collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Akron Museum of Art.

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