NYAB Event - Penny Kronengold "Horses, Carousels, Child's Play"

Penny Kronengold "Horses, Carousels, Child's Play"

First Street Gallery

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The First Street Gallery announces an exhibition of recent work by Penny Kronengold.

In 1996 the image of a powerful horse came to the artist and was quickly realized in clay; this terracotta sculpture became the central figure in a group of paintings that Jed Perl, writing in The New Republic, called “deliriously sky-high fantasies, in which massive horses tumble from the heavens.” The horses reappeared in 2007 but with their power checked: encased in glass vitrines, girded for war, or pinned to a carousel. The current exhibition makes the carousel itself a key subject alongside the horses, who refuse to be defined as painted wood figures. Sometimes they seem to hover, turn back, or drive off the carousel altogether. The horses’ vitality derives partly from Kronengold’s process. Her work begins as sketches done rapidly on-site; she feels that the painting lurks behind the sketch, and that the sketch retains its authority even as the painting acquires a life of its own.

Kronengold’s 2007 show was favorably reviewed by Lance Esplund, who wrote in The New York Sun of “her wonderfully fluid line” and “Bonnardworthy color.” David Cohen, writing in The New York Sun and artcritical.com, noted that Kronengold’s“formal concerns amount to an almost alchemical duality of solid and transparent, mass and fluidity … a collision of intense drawing and ecstatic color.”

She is represented in the Smithsonian Collection of the Library of Congress, Mobil Oil, MCI Telecommunications and the Printmaking Workshop. In addition to ten previous shows at the First Street Gallery, she has exhibited at the Richard Stockton College Art Gallery, the Albright-Knox Members Gallery, the Trenton City Museum, The Sculpture Center, the Lancaster Museum of Art and Lori Bookstein Fine Art. Her work is reproduced in Tikkun and American Craft.

[Image: Penny Kronengold "Green Carousel, Red Riders" (2009) Oil on linen, 13 7/8 x 18 in.]

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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