GALLERY II
“A Sense of Place” with Susan Abbott

“My art is about a place which exists as an emotion and as a thought. The gabled house is a form that has an iconic meaning. It is both familiar and abstract, and it anchors a locale that is mysterious and familiar. It has provided me with an artistic rubric that I have been able to explore with evolving outcomes. The shapes of the house, with its angled roof and shadowed side, have become an imbedded gesture in my art, and an avenue for my imagination.”

Ken Rush graduated from Syracuse University School of Fine Arts in 1967. He has received awards, grants and has had numerous solo exhibitions. He has recently been represented by the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York City, where he had a one-person exhibition in 2006. Mr. Rush is not only an artist, but also an author and illustrator of children’s books. He has taught in different venues in NYC and currently divides his time between Brooklyn, NY and Danby, Vermont. The paintings in this exhibition show a development in his exploration of place and the way it affects his sense of the world and informs his visual memory. Both the “canyon” and the “gable” have become “embedded” gestures in the physical creation of his work, as well as the psychological symbols which propel it. This is his fourth exhibition at the Southern Vermont Arts Center.

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