Bits & Pieces
Assembled Antique Elements by Warren Kimble
Frog Hollow Craft Gallery March, 2017
Bits & Pieces Assembled Antique Elements by Warren Kimble March 2017 Frog Hollow Gallery Burlington, VT
Frog Hollow Craft Association Inc FROG HOLLOW IS DEDICATED TO THE EXPOSURE AND APPRECIATION OF VERMONT FINE ART AND CRAFT. THROUGH SALES, EXHIBITIONS, AND EDUCATION, IT EXISTS TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, AND TO PROMOTE THE AWARENESS OF THE ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE HANDCRAFTED.
Staff Rob Hunter
Frog Hollow Craft Association Board of Directors Carol MacDonald- President Lynne Bond - Vice President Rachel Morton - Secretary Eileen Blackwood - Treasurer Susan Raber Bray
Frog Hollow Gallery Board of Directors Liz Lawrence - President Cody McKibben Kevin Ruelle - Secretary
***Prices and availability of items listed in this catalogue apply to the works only during the duration of the exhibit and are subject to change.
Executive Director
Founder Allen Johnson
Cover image: City Time-Rush Hour by Warren Kimble
Bits & Pieces
“No cows, no pigs, no houses, no chickens!” was Warren Kimble’s statement regarding his new work being presents at Frog Hollow for the month of March, 2017. Known as one of America’s foremost contemporary folk artists, these words may come as a surprise to some. Nationally recognized for his Americana images evoking a simpler and less complicated time featuring exactly the contents he is exiling from his new work, Warren Kimble in recent years has chosen to venture into new artistic horizons, most notably in his explorations into abstract paintings. Beginning with his “Widows of War” and “Let the Sun Shine” series of paintings Warren Kimble has again embraced his constant artistic evolution, switching his attentions to more found object assemblages, combining his new abstract vision with a sense of his folk art foundations. The end result is a new direction in folk art that is 100% Warren Kimble with new pieces moving more towards contemporary modern art all the while following new black and white trends in home décor. Bold, strong and architectural in design the new work will fill the back gallery space in Frog Hollow for the entire month of March. An opening/ meet the artist event will be held Friday, March 3rd 2017 from 5-8PM.
Table
2017 23.25” x 40” x 15.5” $3200
Grand Entrance 2017 48” x 24” $2800
Piano Man 2017 39.5” x 14” $3600
Small Cityscape 2017 8” x 8” $575
The Chief 2017 16.5” x 21.5” $3200
Liberty Reigns 2016 19” x 19” $2850
Morning Glow 2016 19.75” x 20.75” $3800
Mona, Here's Looking at You, Mona Lisa 2016 21.5” x 12.5” $475
Sound Waves, Small 2016 6” x 6” $350
Sound Waves, Large 2016 7.75” x 7.75” $375
City Park 2016 17.25” x 27” $3800
The Apartment 2016 18” x 27” $3400
The Arrangement 2016 10” x 4.5” $275
Her Room (a.k.a The Boudoir) 2016 11.5” x 7.5” $450
Y Not with Knot 2017 9” x 7” $425
The Bard 2016 11” x 6” $375
Home
2016 10” x 33” $2800
The Theatre 2016 12” x 21” $3200
Miss Liberty 2016 25” x 21” $3200
Downtown 2016 15.25” x 29” $4200
Mirror with Ball 2017 31.25” x 19.75” $2400
Mirror
2017 30.25” x 19” $2400
Chinatown 2016 8.5” x 25” $1800
City Time-Rush Hour 2016 17” x 30” $4200
City Sunset 2016 15” x 17.5” $3400
Early Snow 2016 22” x 30” $3000
Climbing the Ladder of Success 2015 17.25” x 3.25” $325
Just Us 2015 7.5” x 5” $300
Water Fountain 2015 16.75” x 16” x 15” $350
Untitled 30 2015 6.5” x 26.5” $300
Untitled 31 2015 13.5” x 6” $300
Untitled 33 2015 22.75” x 18.5” $325
Untitled 34 2015 21” x 9.25” $325
Man
2015 21” x 9.25” $325
Warren Kimble Brandon, VT As “America’s Best Known Living Folk Artist,” Warren Kimble draws on more than 50 years of experience as a fine artist, educator, and antiques collector to create a casual but sophisticated style of American Folk Art. His classic folk art features the animals, rural landscapes and buildings of Vermont. Warren Kimble’s paintings are universally appealing. They evoke a simpler and less complicated era. As Warren himself says, his style is “reminiscent of something that surrounds a person every day. It is simplistic, yet abstract.” Among his most popular images are barns, houses, animals and Americana themes that reflect his love for landscapes in Vermont and rural America. Warren often paints on carefully selected wood for his canvas, using 18thcentury tabletops or cabinet doors that have textural qualities due to their use by past generations. His warm and unique color palette adds to the overall feeling of serenity in his paintings, which are widely sought after both in the U.S. and internationally. In response to his art work, more than 50 licensing partners joined with Warren from 1995 to present to create a series of quality products in range of categories, including artistic prints, calendars, furniture, home accents, wallpaper, dishware, and publishing. He has been ranked in . Warren and Lorraine, his wife and business partner, live and work in the western Vermont town of , where they have been deeply involved in civic life and philanthropy for over forty years. They continue to be a strong force in community development, working together with other artists and community leaders to begin an artist’s guild and helped rehabilitate a now thriving downtown.
Despite formally “retiring” in 2006, Warren and Lorraine remain active both in civic and artistic initiatives in Brandon and beyond. For instance, Warren has been actively involved through the Vermont Arts Council in leading a state-wide effort, to bring art to local public schools throughout Vermont. Lorraine is an active volunteer with the , and both Lorraine and Warren remain active with the . In addition to continuing to produce classic folk art paintings, Warren has also formally produced and shown two collections that reflect new interests. The first new collection, “Widows of War,” involves mixed media – including paintings and sculpture – in reaction to the Iraq War, specifically, and the toil of war, generally, on the wives, mothers, and children whose loved ones leave to fight in war. Shortly after completing “Widows of War,” Warren Kimble completed a new collection in 2009. Entitled “Let The Sun Shine,” this collection of abstract oil paintings reflect an unusual optimism for the future through the textures, shapes, and color palette that Warren creates. Warren Kimble’s paintings are collected worldwide and have been the subject of one-person shows in galleries in New York and Boston, as well as at Syracuse University and a . Warren graduated with a B.F.A. from in 1957. After an early career in advertising, he taught in public schools and later joined the art faculty at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont. His work has been profiled in Yankee Magazine, , Vermont Public TV, and many other media outlets. In 2002, , the George Arents Pioneer Medal. He is also the recipient of an from in Poultney, Vermont and received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2013.
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