REFLECTIONS OF NATURE
Alice Carpenter ■ Stephen Pentak ■ Carol Snyder ■ Mary Jane Ward
OCTOBER 3 - OCTOBER 31, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 (6:30-8:30PM)
VALET PARKING
RSVP: CAROL@KENYGALLERIES.COM OR
FRONT COVER, Clockwise from top left: STEPHEN PENTAK, 2024,IV.II , oil on panel, 32” x 72”; CAROL SNYDER, OldFence , wheel thrown high fired porcelain 4 3/4”h x 6 3/8”; ALICE CARPENTER, Landscape24.14(SeptemberFullMoon) , 2024, hand pressed monotype with sgraffito, 2 ¾” x 4 ½”.
MARY JANE WARD, MiloApples,BlueSky,2022, oil on panel 6 x 8 inches
We are excited to exhibit a rich range of landscapes – from the painterly organic to incisively expressive to reductively abstracted works of art. These landscapes have been created in distinctive media including hand pressed monotype, oil, and porcelain. The artists’ mastery of their means of expression enables visual nuances that are unique to the artist and media utilized. Technical excellence and aesthetic creativity yield visual poetry. That poetry resonates with the viewer long after one’s initial exposure to it.
Hopefully you can join us to enjoy these artists' reflective, inspiring visions of nature. Each artist will contribute a personal statement about their art on view.
Tim Keny
ALICE CARPENTER
My early monotypes are based, not on landscape observed, but on childhood memories from rural Ohio. With my recent move to rural Connecticut, I am once again enriched by the influence, and now, direct observations of nature .
I continue to be drawn to the magic of evening light, the wondermen t of moon in night skies and the mystery of isolated structures.
For me, limitation of image size and limitation of palette are fundamental to an expression of intimacy I hope to capture.
Landscape24.14(SeptemberFullMoon) , 2024
Hand pressed monotype with sgraffito
2 ¾ x 4 ½ inches
$600
ALICE CARPENTER
Landscape15.5 , 2015
Hand pressed monotype on Stonehenge paper
2 ¾ x 3 ¾ inches
$575
Hand pressed monotype with sgraffito
2 ½ x 2 ⅞ inches
$400
Landscape24.3(Owl'sLightAlongMackenzieReservoir),2024
ALICE CARPENTER
Landscape25.1(Neighbor'sHousewithFull Moon),2025
Hand pressed monotype with sgraffito
5 ½ x 3 inches
$800
Landscape15.4 , 2015
Hand pressed monotype on Stonehenge paper
4 ½ x 3 ½ inches
$625
Landscape24.8,
Hand pressed monotype with sgraffito
4 ¼ x 2 ½ inches
$450
Landscape23.5 , 2023
Hand pressed monotype with sgraffito and gouache
5 ½ x 3 ⅞ inches
$800
“Carpenter uses both additive and reductive methods to make the images, manipulating the ink while also employing a palette knife on the plates and a utility knife on the paper to etch the outlines of buildings, trees and country lanes. Sometimes Carpenter uses gouache to lend a lunar glow to the landscape.”
Joel Oliphint, ColumbusAlive(July, 2021)
STEPHEN PENTAK
One of the things I have appreciated about your representation of my work is the gallery's commitment to context and history. And the limted number of artists you are committed to.
I believe most people who have collected my work have been quite naturally drawn to the landscape." First you see the hills in the painting, then you see the painting in the hills." I would like this to be better understood over time.
Scratching and scraping. A long time method of my painting has been used to reveal a ground or structure beneath the painting’s surface.
(Journal Entry 7.24.25)
2024,IV.II
Oil on panel
32 x 72 inches
$9,200
STEPHEN PENTAK
2018,I.V Oil on panel
23.75 x 23.75 inches
$3,200
Oil on panel
14 x 18 inches
$2,000
Oil on panels (triptych)
14 x 42 inches
$3,800
IX.I , 2017
VII.IX , 2008
STEPHEN PENTAK
32 x 72 inches
$9,200
2022,VIII.I , 2022
Oil on panel
18 x 14 inches
VII.VI,2014 Oil on panel
$2,000
STEPHEN PENTAK
2021,I.I Oil on panels (diptych) 20 x 28 inches
$3,400
Stephen’s art is a distillation of nuances of light and color that inform the landscape and diverse locales in all seasons and varied times of the day. His paintings have a sophisticated abstract structure which invites our contemplation.
Tim Keny, 2022
CAROL SNYDER
My work strives to continue the ceramic craft tradition of wheel thrown vessels but moves beyond what we perceive as domestic objects to those that speak of aesthetic form and my interest in the patterns and textures of the landscape. My tiles present another way to explore working with porcelain, from layering colored slips, to sgraffito, to MIshima, the Japanese tecnique of creating linework in clay.
These are records of experiences I have had in nature but condensed and abstracted so that the work becomes less representational. This reductive method allows for the form to embody a blur of a journey’s memory and perhaps become a contemplative moment for the viewer .
My works are not just about a process or a glaze; they are to express a sense of quiet, balance, and ties with the natural world.
OldFence
Wheel thrown high fired porcelain. Colored porcelain slip, Mishima
4 ¾"h x 6 ⅜"d
$1,000
CAROL SNYDER
EarlySnow
Handmade porcelain tiles with colored porcelain slip, MIshima
7”h x 17 ⅛” – 21”w
$1,000
GhostTrees
Handmade porcelain tiles, colored porcelain slip
7"h x 46 ½"-50 ½"w
$2,200
AutumnWoods
Wheelthrown, hand carved high fired porcelain, colored porcelain slip
6 ½"h x 6 ⅝"d
$1,500
CAROL SNYDER
AlmostFrozen
Handmade porcelain tile, colored porcelain slip, Mishima
7” x 35 ½" w $1,200
Swallows:ALandscapeinCups
Wheelthrown high fired porcelain, colored porcelain slip, Mishima
3 ½"h x 24"l x 4"d
$2,500
CAROL SNYDER
Waterfalls
High fired porcelain, colored porcelain slip
2 ⅝”h x 5”w x 1 ½ ”d
$450
GhostTrees
High fired porcelain, colored porcelain slip
3 ⅜”h x 5⅜’ w x 2 ¼”d
$450
VesselwithWire
Wheelthrown, altered high fired porcelain, high temperature wire
6 ⅛”h x 4 ⅛” d
$800
Snyder examines and explores her chosen medium to full-effect, highlighting the simple forms, warm translucency and graceful lines that porcelain affords. Further, Snyder’s work seems to exist outside of time, assuming shapes that are both fundamental and timeless, yet executed with such delicacy as to appear fleeting.
Jeff Regensberger, ColumbusUnderground
MARY JANE WARD
These works are visual odes to a place, a moment, or a detail in a landscape. Whether it is the particular colors and shapes in the sky at sunset or the arrangement of tangled leaves on an apple tree, I try to record what I see. I find the most inspiration in the presence of my subjects, whether sitting in a studio with a model or still life, or immersing myself in a landscape—en plein air. I am interested in the meditative nature of this process—entering the focused frame of mind that comes with hours of direct observation.
French philosopher Simone Weil said, “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.” I want my work to convey a reverence for nature, so I strive to make sensitive, accurate and clear renditions of my subjects, while balancing that clarity with my personal attention and interpretation for composition, balance, and color. My experience of painting is often meditative, full of wonder, curiosity and awe, and I hope the work can open the door to that wonder and love for the natural world in the viewer as well.
MiloAppleTree , 2022 Oil on panel
inches
$700
$650
MistoverMudgePond,2025
MiloApples,BlueSky,2022
AppleWithLeaves , 2019
Charcoal, graphite, ink wash on paper 15 x 11 inches
$760
FivePersimmons , 2019
Charcoal, graphite, ink wash on paper
11 x 15 inches
$760
Equipped with some of the best education possible in today’s art world, Ward seeks to learn more about the natural world and how to depict it in a truthful and personal way. . . Each turn of a leaf, each fruit catching the light, every twig has something to say, if an artist will listen. Skill and sensitivity are needed so the subject is not only presented honestly, but also says something about the artist’s perception and artistic vision.
Bob Bahr, PleinAirMagazine(February-March 2022)
Oil on panel
5 ¾ x 7 inches
$650
“. . . In
some withdrawn, unpublic mead Let me sigh upon a reed, Or in the woods, with leafy din, Whisper the still evening in: Some still work give me do,Only-be it near you!. . .”
From Nature Henry David Thoreau
PinkCloudBankandWaxingMoon, 2022