Eric Barth "Light and Luminosity" at Keny Galleries

Eric Barth

Light and Luminosity

“An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all...feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.”

Paul Cezanne “To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from the irrelevant material which surrounds them.”

Ben Shahn

September 6 - October 4, 2019 Opening Reception Friday September 6, 6-8 pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, September 14, 1-3pm RSVP@kenygalleries.com 614-464-1228

Timothy C. Keny James M. Keny

Introduction

“He’s used the same medium for the past 20 years. Along with oils and soft pastels, Barth combines chalks with colored pencils and scrapes into paintings to reveal the work’s layers.

‘Abstract turned to landscape,’ Barth says. ‘I still try to keep one foot in the abstract world.’...

So how does Barth make his landscape paintings stand out from all the others?

‘...part of it is the medium I use. It is one a lot of painters use, but I use my fingers - blending stumps, using my hands, walking that line between abstract all at the same time. The landscape is still there, just in an abstract world.”

Hannah Bealer, “Sidetracked from Abstract” CityScene, December 2015

We hope you will join us to enjoy the evocative new landscapes.

Tim Keny

“...painting is both creative and responsive. It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.� Ben Shahn

Cover: Moment of Enlightenment, 2019 Back cover: My Moon Will Never Be the Same, 2018 Inside Left Top: Limited Visibility #2, 2019 Inside Left Bottom: The Deafening Light, 2019 Inside Right: Drifting Into a New Year, 2018