Resume

Kevin Broad

Philadelphia

 

Selected Exhibitions

2024    "Duo Light : A Fusion of Perspectives" Stirner Modern, Easton, PA

2022    "Life in Line and Color" Stirner Modern, Easton, PA

2020    "Into The Woods" Park Towne Place, Philadelphia

2019     "Swans Island" Gallery 543, URBN, Philadelphia

2018    George Billis Gallery, Chelsea, New York City
             Gallery 543, URBN, Philadelphia

            "Landfall" Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia

2017    Davinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia

             Artspace 1241, Philadelphia

             Lacey & Phillips Gallery, Philadelphia
2016    "Incandescent Dreamer" Jed Williams Gallery, Philadelphia

2015    George Billis Gallery, Chelsea, New York City

             Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
2014    "Island Works" Bahdeebahdu, Philadelphia

             "New Works" Banana Factory, Bethlehem PA
2013    "New Paintings"  Philadelphia
2012    "City Paintings" B&K Arts, Philadelphia

             "Towards Abstraction" Philadelphia
2011    "Roots" Nazareth Arts Center, Nazareth PA
2010    "Cote d’Azur" Philadelphia
2009    "Garden Series" Philadelphia
2008    "Boothbay Harbor Oils" Philadelphia

              Upfront Gallery, Port Jervis, New York

2007    "New Paintings from Italy" Philadelphia
2006    "Swans Island, Adirondacks" Philadelphia

             "Urbanscapes" William Way Center, Philadelphia
2005    "Retrospective" Philadelphia
2004    "New Abstracts" Philadelphia
2003    "Bass Harbor" Philadelphia

2002    "Lehigh River Sojourn" MCS Gallery, Easton, PA
2001    "Willistown,"  Squirrel Gallery, Willistown, PA
2000     MCS Gallery, Easton, PA
1999    "Iceland Summer" Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery, Lambertville NJ
1998    "Paintings of Germany and Southern France" Philadelphia
1995    "Plein Air Paintings" Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery,  Lambertville NJ

             "Exposito Extremo" Easton, PA

             "Plein Air Paintings" NCACC, Bethlehem, PA
1994    "Landscape" Connexions Gallery, Easton PA

1993    Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA
1991    Mostly Jacobsburg Artist Studio, Tatamy, PA
1989    "Gouache Landscapes" Connexions Gallery, Easton, PA
1988    "Private Island" Adrienne Redd Gallery, Bethlehem, PA

1985     "Watercolors" Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
              "Kevin Broad Watercolors" Nazareth Arts Center, Nazareth, PA

 

 Education 

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia,  Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA,  Pillsbury College Owatana, MN

 

Residencies / Work Studies

Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland,  Chapelle du Rosaire, Vence, France,  Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

 

Press

2024   https://www.wdiy.org/show/lehigh-valley-arts-salon/2024-05-14/luminous-a...

2020   Vision Angles  http://www.facebook.com/share/p/ToFn6rbHq6gxE1Dm/?mibextid=oFDknk

2018  http://www.georgebillis.com/uploads/1/7/6/1/17611121/broad_pr_2018update...

2016   Edith Newhall, Galleries, The Philadelphia Inquirer http://www2.philly.com/philly/entertainment/arts/Gallery_shows__Six_photographer_explorers_at_the_Phila_photo_arts_center.html

2015  Press release George Billis Gallery
http://www.georgebillis.com/uploads/1/7/6/1/17611121/kevin_broad_pr_2015.pdf

2014.  Abstract Magnetism the New Works of Kevin Broad – Vision Angles
https://www.facebook.com/VisionAngles/?fref=nf

2010  Art Spikol  "One of Kevin Broad's early instructors was an inspirational but dogmatic ("somewhat scary", according to Broad) figure who adminished him to be honest and always trust his own view of a subject, whether landscape, cityscape, figure or still life. The suggestion took. Broad creates his art through his unique personal filter; he responds to undertones, those nuances of color that are there but unseen in the light of day unless you know what you are looking for and have practiced finding them-- the greens and blues and magentas of flesh tones and shadow. Those nuances are particularly noticable in Broad's astonishing and joyful pastels of the human figure and in his paintings exploring the effects of light on nature. You can see them in his cityscapes, where form and oft-unexpected colors are juxtaposed to reflect buildings and backyards, and in skies and water that are more credible than simple reality would allow. It's all helped along by Broad's understanding of material-- he has ground pigment to make his own gouache, egg tempera and oil paints-- and is one of a very few artists today experimenting with fresco, a permanent medium with rigid technical demands, in case you happen to have an empty wall."