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Kenneth Ober

Kenneth Ober
310-674-4641
khober@sbcglobal.net
www.kennethober.com

Kenneth Houghton Ober was born in Cambridge, MA. on February 22, 1972. His creative abilities began to surface in elementary school and had become his focus by high school. Through the guidance of an excellent teacher, he was encouraged to explore all forms of media, and was instilled with the means to provoke his imagination. Kenneth studied Art, Art History, and Literature at the University of Maryland for two years. The art, religions, and cultures of Asia served as an introduction to Buddhist philosophy, which led him to Naropa University in Boulder, CO. The desire to connect with a larger art world brought Kenneth to California, where he graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2001. Since then, he has lived and worked as an independent, professional artist in Los Angeles.
The conceptual abstractions shown here on this page are examples from three different series called “Grasslands”, “Seascapes” & “Fields” in which the artist uses variety and density of lines and color to convey the essence and motion embodied in each of the natural settings. The work is about exploring and defining time and space using simple visual notations within complex fields. This technique creates an experience of the optical mixing of colors. The colors are not only mixed on the canvas but they also mix together in the eye of the beholder, creating additional color perceptions. Kenneth works with a tool designed for pin-striping automobiles, which he uses to apply paint to subtly textured canvas. The tool provides consistent mark-making resulting in a kind of “micro-impressionist” technique.
“Our perceptions of time and space are created by the language we use and experience. Language, at its most basic, consists of gesture, sound, and mark, all clues to some past experience beyond memory-a ghost of meaning, containing some comprehensible, relative meaning. I have stripped the form of many references from my work, and left only their essence, in order to create that ghost of feeling and knowing. The visual experience triggers memories, both past and future, then crosses into the realm of the conceptual.”

SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2007 Quantum Quandaries, The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Erasing Space, Dao, L.A.  *** 2002 Recent Work, The Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 New Paintings, Paparazzi Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
2001 Paintings, Flasher –Los Angeles
2000 Dragons, Flasher Los Angeles *** 2000 Thread of Paint, Jaco, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Monochrome Mandalas, Jaco, L.A
1999 New Paintings, Garden of Childhood, Malibu, CA
1998 Hexibition, Xoinx Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 “Webs Words Weave”, Urbis Orbis Arts, Chicago
1996 New Work, Xoinx Gallery, Chicago *** 1995 Tapping the Psychospere, Naropa Inst, Boulder, CO
1993 Installation, Planet X Art Space, College Park, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Life is 360 Degrees, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Inglewood Open Studios, Inglewood, CA *** Rogue Wave, Anderson Art Collective, Carpinteria, CA
2008 In the Abstract, LAX Terminal One, Los Angeles *** Inglewood Open Studios, Inglewood
2008 “Reclaiming: Inter-Generation, 627 Carondelet, Los Angeles
2008 Juried All Media, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
2007 Juried All Media, Palos Verdes Art Ctr *** 2006 “Wet Paint” LACMA Arts Council, Beverly Hills, CA
2004 New Paintings, Dao, Los Angeles *** 2003 Reclaiming, 627 Carondelet, Los Angeles
2003 “$200” Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles *** 2003 Art for Play, Venice, CA
2003 The Miscellaneous, Orbetello Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Urban Tents & Pods, Orbetello Gallery, L.A *** Undergrad Show, Otis College Art & Design, CA
2001 Gibton, Bolsky Gallery, Westchester, CA *** 2001 Auditorium, Bliss Gallery, Pasadena
2000 Fori, Santa Monica, CA *** Through Our Eyes, Bolsky Gallery, Westchester, CA

Kenneth Ober’s work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections. His art has also been featured in several California publications. He is a past recipient of a William Randolph Hearst Scholarship from The Hearst Foundation.

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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist