I'm Kenney Mencher. I'm an artist who left a tenured professorship in 2016 to pursue making art full time. This blog is about art, art history, with a emphasis on human rights. I make homoerotic art featuring bears, otters & other gay wildlife.
Saturday
The Trick, framed assemblage and painting 11"x14" with a short story
The Trick, framed assemblage and painting 11"x14" $125
"The Trick" by Michael Gray
Tammy Sue taught me the trick when she was visiting with Aunt Betsy last summer. I didn't believe her until she showed me. She is older than me and has many boy friends, she says.
Poppa tells me I have legs like my grandma. I wish they were more like Aunt Betsy's. I wish they were like any one's; like someone famous or some famous person's wife. Just not like grandma's. I hate them.
And everyone is bigger than me. I tissue them sometimes, hoping Bobby will notice. He almost talked to me once, but was called away by his mean friends. I don't even look at them, so I don't know why they even bother being mean. But they always do.
Bobby and I are going to get married and have a great big family. We're gonna have dogs, and chickens, and a big farm. Once, I did the trick too hard and a little blood came out. All of the other times it's worked though. No one even knows.
My hair is short, so I don't have to worry about that. Tammy Sue told me to keep it short, so I do because that's a good idea. I did almost get caught that one time. My shirt was pulled down, so that it didn't get messy, and my brother walked in. I told him I thought I had a rash and was checking. He believed it, but didn't come near me for a week.
My legs still look like grandma's, but they are getting better, I think. Tammy Sue says she's been in love a bunch of times. My dad says they're buds, but one day, those will look like grandma's too.
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Friday
Incredible Painting I Found On Etsy
The Scenery (27.5'' x 27'') watercolor and ink on rice paper by Susan Chan
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Her paintings, calligraphy and literature are united in this piece in a work of art that is both traditional and incredibly modern in her esthetic.
Susan grew up in a culturally diverse society and has been attracted to Chinese brush painting ever since she was young. She enjoys the spontaneity of ink splashing and self expression in her pieces. Today, she dedicates most of her time to Chinese brush painting under master painter, Paul Hau. She draws her inspirations from her master, nature, and ancient chinese poetry. Her works have been exhibited in various locations such as: San Francisco Bay Area; Kunshan (2008), Shanghai (2011), Tun Huang (2011), Zhen Zhou (2011), Jiu Quen, China, and Tapei, Taiwan (2011). In year 2011, She won the grand prize award at the 17thannual “World Peace Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition” in commemoration to the 100th anniversary of the XinHai revolution, celebrating General Sun Yat-sen.... The award winning piece unfortunately cannot be displayed. It is now a part of the permanent collection at National Dr Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei Taiwan.
Coming to Electric Works Art Gallery
Robert Minervini
After Glow: As the Wick Burns
May 10—June 29
Artist Reception May 10, 6-8PM
As the Wick Burns (still life with endangered California flora and fauna), 2013; acrylic on canvas; 48 x 72"
In After Glow: As the Wick Burns Robert Minervini addresses the ecological impact of humanity on the landscape. In a group of thirteen new paintings and drawings of floral still lifes, literal and metaphorical quotations from traditional European vanitas paintings have been recontextualized in contemporary environments. The flora and fauna depicted in these works are currently listed as endangered wildlife in California. These present day memento mori directly reference the traditional form and function of vanitas paintings—which acted as symbolic reminders of the inevitability of death—by depicting local wildlife that is in the process of extinction.
The subtitle “As the Wick Burns” is a poetic adaptation of a familial saying which Minervini would use whenever preparing to depart from family gatherings. In Molfetesse, Minervini's family’s regional language, the expression “Sa squagghiate la cer” roughly translates as “the candle wick is about to burn out,” meaning our time together is coming to an end. Minervini often found this saying to be bittersweet, and it echoes the notion of time fleeting presented in his work.
Ranging in scale from intimate to grand, and in style from abstract to realistic, these highly meticulous and layered artworks vacillate in a space that is both symbolic and illusionistic. Using predominantly acrylic paint, and mixed media such as paper and cellophane, the materiality and physicality of these works in close proximity is contradictory to the slick appearance that they take on at a distance. At moments, paint skins scraped up from the palette are collaged into and on top of layers to create flower forms. In contrast, highly rendered moments intermingle with swatches of spray-painted forms and shapes to create a visual weaving and density that mimics the effect of looking into an elaborate bouquet of flowers.
The flowers in these works have been chosen for their symbolism of aesthetic beauty and the way in which they simultaneously signify ecological disaster in a specific time and place. Through this body of work, Minervini poses the question: What is the greater cultural significance of depicting something that is both beautiful and a sign of something profoundly tragic?
Wednesday
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Tuesday
Monday
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
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Some Watercolor Pinups each 8"x10" on Rives Watercolor
Some Watercolor Pinups each 8"x10" on Rives Watercolor $25 each on Etsy
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