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Keith Kanouse’s Artistic Journey: Nationally Renown Lawyer Exhibits Paintings in Boca Raton
While Keith Kanouse has a national reputation as a franchise attorney, most of his colleagues, acquaintances and clients do not know that he also paints! The Rickie Report is pleased to share an invitation to his first SOLO Exhibition, August 27th through September 29, 2014 at the Art Gallery in the downtown Boca Raton Library. The public is invited to a Reception on Friday, September 12th. More details and a sneak peek are here.
The Kollection by Keith
Your are cordially invited
Meet the Artist Reception
Keith J. Kanouse
Friday, September 12, 2014
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Art Gallery of the Downtown Boca Raton Library
Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres
Please e-mail your RSVP: Keith@Kanouse.com
400 N.W. 2nd Avenue Boca Raton, FL 33432
Keith Kanouse tells The Rickie Report, ” Though have no formal training in art and have never taken an art class, I have always loved art. One of my favorite courses in college was Art History. As one of the audience, my favorite period of art is French Impressionism. As an artist, my favorite paintings have the combination of geometry and various colors of the light prism giving a painting movement and 3 dimensionality.”
“My artistic journey began after graduating from the University of Notre Dame School of Law in 1974, when I moved to Buffalo, New York. While visiting the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and their modern art exhibits and was inspired. I went to an art store and bought a canvas and some acrylic paint and began. That artistic journey continues, after significant periods of inactivity, to this day with renewed intensity, confidence, and creativity.”
Keith’s paintings bring the viewer in, with his depth of colors and dimensionality of design. Most often, his inspirations come from objects or events in every day life. A favorite silk tie or commemorating of our country’s Bi-Centennial in 1976. At this point, Keith put his paint brushes down and focused on work and his family.
In 1988, a new home with barren walls beckoned. A space over the fireplace turned to inspire another new painting for the dining room. He shares, ” My inspiration was my wife’s, Susan’s limited edition Dior fine china called “Dior Rose” having a pattern of pinks and blues being the primary colors. Using these colors and others, I used 14 equal squares at each side with the 14 squares becoming smaller and smaller until appearing to reach infinity in the center of the painting. “Whirlpool to Infinity” still hangs in our dining room and is my wife’s favorite. By starting your eye at the clue colors on the top of the painting and following the circular pattern round and round, you get the feeling of the whirlpool and falling into infinity.
When Keith’s daughter, Laura moved to Gainesville as a freshman at the University of Florida, she asked him to paint a painting for her dormitory room as a birthday present to her. “Her only instructions were to paint something in pink and orange. That painting, “Laura’s 19th – Golden Sunset on Lake” is shown above. The photo does not do the painting justice as to the brilliancy of the colors, the setting sun and the waves below the golden shimmer, he explains.”
Keith relates, ” Now that I had more time as an “empty nester, my creative juices began running and I am creating a new painting on a regular basis. I like to get a feel of the place where the painting will hang to give me inspiration of its design and colors. There were 2 areas in our family room, left and right of the bay window, that could use paintings sized 24” x 48”. One of the areas was next to our large main stone wall in the family room that gave me inspiration for my painting “Stacked Stones.” I also back-lit it, giving a nice effect in the evening.”
Everyone knows that moving out of your “comfort zone” takes courage. Keith has done just that, with a more impressionistic painting. He says, ” I dreaded beginning to paint my next painting because it was, as you see, well outside of my comfort zone. My inspiration was a scene on Lake Oconee near Reynolds Plantation, Georgia at sunset. This was my first venture into post-impressionism painting.”
For more information about this exhibit or other paintings by Keith Kanouse, please email Keith@Kanouse.com or visit www.Kanouse.com
or call 561-451-8090 x 1
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