KEVIN SONMOR AT THE SHERBROOKE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
January 21 to March 25, 2012
“New Old Masters” is an expression coined by Donald Kuspit, the distinguished New York art critic, to describe contemporary figurative painters who reinterpret or even expropriate the work of the Old Masters. Kevin Sonmor’s works, who lives in Cowansville and work in the region, could well answer this description.
The work of Kevin Sonmor is nourished by ambiguities. Specifically, he matches bits of classical subjects – flowers, fruits, still lives, horses – with a more contemporary technique, a spontaneous brush-stroke, a texture modern and fluid, with a powerful colorization. Sonmor brings time to a halt, freeze a moment, tells a story or a narrative, in a space where a strange sadness or a vivid emotion is expressed by a deep comprehension of painting itself, by the exploration of texture, between a kind of reality and an evident theatricality.
Kevin Sonmor was born in Lacombe, Alberta, in 1959. He was educated at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary and the Banff Centre, Alberta. He received his Masters Degree in Fine Art from Concordia University, Quebec. Sonmor’s paintings have been exhibited across Canada and the United States, and are represented in many important public and corporate collections. Currently, Kevin maintains a studio in Dunham, Quebec.
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