Visiting Presenter, Kevin Teare
The artist collective Nomads NYC presents PASSIONATE GEOMETRIES, a 53-year retrospective concert of the creative work of composer Richard Cameron-Wolfe, featuring eight challenging contemporary works – three premieres and five first stagings, the evening offering a provocative interplay of art-forms: visual art by Kevin Teare, chamber music, drama, opera, dance, and poetry/literature. The evening features fourteen outstanding New York City contemporary performing artists plus special guests from New Zealand, Russia/Kazakhstan, Boston, and Los Angeles.
“The 1970’s witnessed a leap in how collectors were drawn to younger painters.”
–David McKee on L’Ecole Horizontale, 2020
Shown above, Invoice, 1977, oil, wood, mortar, 61 x 65 inches
BELOW, Root Mean Square, 1978, watercolor, paper, 16 x 14 inches
“Calling the works ‘paintings’ feels like a disservice to them.”
– Jennifer Landes, THE East hampton star, december 2020
Kevin Teare’s L’Ecole Horizontale exhibition … is dislocating in a number of ways. Instead of alienating the viewer, however, it serves as a reassuring reflection of our times and a way to reorder the chaos in our midst.
Calling the works ‘paintings’ feels like a disservice to them. It's not the medium that is the star, rather it is an embellishment of a support that incorporates horizontal layers of latticed wood and mortar. The resulting compositions cannot have one without the other, but the latter elements are what make them memorable.”
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Large Charm for the 2nd Chakra, 1978, oil, wood, mortar
38 x 38 inches
Barbizon, 1976, oil, acrylic, paper
22 x 22 inches
The Praise Blame Trip, 1978, oil, wood, mortar
78 x 78 inches
TEARE’S 1970’s paintings exhibited in Madrid
Nova Spatia was curated in 2022 by Irina Leyva-Perez for Arte 92 in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition explored the symbiosis between architecture, Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena (1696-1757), and painting, Kevin Teare (1951-). Kevin talks about his work in this video.
VMFA acquires Witness (1978)
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA acquired Witness, 1978, oil, wood, mortar, 78 x 78 inches for their permanent collection in 2022.
An art fundraiser for medical supplies for Ukraine
Kevin Teare donated Beatles Pi 1, 2006, oil on vellum, 36 x 36 inches, to Reclamation, a group show curated by Heidi Lee Komaromi at Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY, in July 2022. Half the proceeds from sales went towards medical supplies for Ukrainian relief.
Kevin Teare, 1975, Monroe County Library with Vent, 1974, oil, enamel, wood, bedsheet, 36 x 80
Photo by allen frame, 1975
East hampton Star, December 2020
About the artist
… Inspired by a trip to New York City’s SoHo neighborhood in 1974, Mr. Teare took the exposed mortar and lathe plaster walls he saw in artists’ lofts as a springboard for his imagination. Back home in Indiana, he began appropriating the materials and visual sensibility conceived in the preceding decade. Yet from looking at the art he made, it was clear he was already searching for more elaborate means of expression.
Sensing it was no longer enough merely to adopt industrial materials or work geometrically in purely sculptural or two-dimensional forms, it appears he appropriately caught the transformation taking place at the moment in the work of Minimalists. Then he made it his own. …
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