Artist Roy Kinzer Will Showcase Work at Newark Academy

The exhibit entitled Reservoirs of Possibilities, features paintings of fractal landscapes and cityscapes derived from digitally altered topographical maps and satellite images. Upon first approach, the paintings offer striking impressions of aerial views of locations that seem to have atmospheric layers of color and pattern infused.  Moving in for a closer look, one discovers a myriad of subtleties and details that both sink back into the landscape and also rise to the surface. The use of collaged maps brings together abstract and representational shapes, and highlights the fractal patterns that surround us, both in nature and man-made.

 

Kinzer shares, “I work in the tradition of the Hudson River School Luminist painters, who used perspective, magnified scale and dramatic lighting to explore the sublime, the feeling of rapture or awe caused by the beauty and terror of nature.” 

 

Kinzer has been making and teaching art for more than 30 years. He has an extensive exhibition record and frequently completes commissions for art consultants, corporations and private collectors.  He is a past recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant.  He holds a Certificate of Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and an MFA from Vermont. College of Fine Arts.