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."