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Born 1956, Berkeley, California
Through the unique usage of color, light and spirit, K.L. McKenna's style captures the landscape in a most unexpected way. Her paintings are not just paintings of landscapes but color harmonies of a very high and unusual order.
Her inspiration for the west comes from childhood summers spent prospecting for fossils in Wyoming with her paleontologist father and family. K.L. McKenna's scenes of Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and Montana reflect her enthusiasm and spiritual connection to the geology of the west, where she paints on site throughout the year.
K.L. McKenna, a resident of Woodstock, NY and Ward, CO, has had extensive experience working for museums and top exhibition design firms in New York, such as Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Albert Woods Design. She worked throughout the United States and Canada as a graphical user interface designer for major banking firms such as Citibank, First Boston and Lehman Brothers. K.L. McKenna was awarded a U.S. Patent for "The Geozoo," an educational toy design. She studied painting first with Mary Buckley at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and later with Nicholas Buhalis at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston, NY.
In 2005, K.L. McKenna exhibited 24 of her paintings in the Borderlands Gallery at the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA. She has participated in the annual auctions "Expanded Horizons," Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, and the "Annual Buffalo Bill Cody Show and Sale," Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY. She is listed on AskArt.com, the blue book on American artists. She has exhibited in a variety of galleries across the United States and in Germany, and her work is included in many corporate and private collections.
She is currently on the Board of Trustees at Pratt Institute. She is Vice President of the Arts Society of Kingston (A.S.K.), which she cofounded in 1995, and holds memberships with the Woodstock Artists Association and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.
Artist Statement
The energy that flows through my hands and onto the canvas is something that I describe as my Color, Light and Spirit technique, which has become my signature. My life's work is to illuminate the mind in an exciting new way - not to defy tradition, but to expand assumption.
Through my formal education, I was trained to discover color in shadow and to use many hues and values to create light. The use of line and space in my compositions combine abstract elements with the figurative which are sculpturally fused by bright color.
My paintings of the west begin on site where I've spent my summers for over 40 years. The reds of Wyoming and Arizona - the brilliant yellows and greens of Colorado and Montana are my passion.
My work as a contemporary American artist appeals to a certain kind of collector - one who is spiritually drawn to the uninhibited use of color and light.
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EDUCATION
1984 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. MID - Master of Industrial Design
1979 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. BA in American Studies / Minor in Anthropology
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2009 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ -"Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau"
2005 Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA -"Illuminating the Mind: Soulful Works by K.L McKenna"
RESIDENCIES
2007 Museum of Northern Arizona Artist-in-Residence Program, Flagstaff, AZ
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ
CURATED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2011 Gallery 501, Villanova, PA
2008 Woodstock School of Art Gallery, Woodstock, NY - Preview Exhibition"Painted Journeys on The Colorado Plateau"
2007 Elisa Pritzker Gallery, Highland, NY -"Powerful Women"
2007 The National Arts Club, New York, NY -"Painted Journeys - In Search of the Sublime"
2006 U.S. Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa - U.S. Department of State"Art in Embassies" program
2005 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY -"Byrdcliffe / Second Century 'continuing the tradition'"
2004 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Art and Environmentalism: An Ethic of 24 Artists of the Hudson River Valley"
2003 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY -"Small Works Invitational"
2003 Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY -"The Painted Vase III," Silent Auction
UPCOMING EVENTS
2013 Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ - "Cowgirl Up" March 22 - May 5, 2013
2013 Nature in Translation Visions through Painting and Photography - Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, NJ May 2013
2013 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, "WYOMING: Paintings by K.L. McKenna" Sept 3 - 28, 2013
2014 Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY "Painted Journeys: New Visions of the American West" Jan 17 - May 2, 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 WFG Gallery, Woodstock, NY - "Color & Light: The Spirit of Big Sky Country"
2010 Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY - "New West Expressions - Works by K.L. McKenna"
2008 Visions West Gallery, Bozeman, MT -"Meet Me Here - Paintings by K.L. McKenna"
2006 Swartly Gallery, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ -"Color, Light and Spirit"
2005 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Spirit Boats and Figures - Trina Greene and K.L. McKenna"
2004 Red Raven Gallery, Big Sky, MT -"Form and Color - K.L. McKenna and Jacqueline Rieder Hud"
2004 Dolce Gallery, Telluride, CO -"On the Way to Telluride"
2004 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY -"A Body of Work - K.L. McKenna and Bruce Currie"
2002 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY -"Color Harmonies from the West"
2001 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY - Featured Artist
2000 Bruynswick Gallery, Gardiner, NY - Solo Show - 1999
1998 West Strand Grill, Kingston, NY -"Landscapes"
1997 Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock, NY -"Watercolors"
1997 Rivendell Gallery, New Paltz, NY -"Wyoming Landscapes"
1997 Carambola, Saugerties, NY -"Figures, Still Lifes and Landscapes"
1997 New World Cafe, Woodstock, NY -"Color, Light and Spirit"
1995 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Callahan and McKenna: Watercolors From Greece"
1995 Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NY -"Paintings and Drawings"
1994 Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT - Solo Alumni Exhibition
1993 Depuy Canal House, High Falls, NY- Solo Drawing Exhibition
JURIED
2009 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT -"Expanded Horizons" Annual Auction - 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
2006 The Jewish Federation of Ulster County, Kingston, NY -"Fall For Art" Annual Show - 1997, 1999-2004
2001 Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY -"Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale" - 1999, 2000
1994 Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY -"All Media Exhibition" - 1993
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY - January, February
2008 Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY - A.S.K. Artist Open Studio Tour - 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006
2006 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"External Light"
2005 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Gift Show"
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY -"Small Packages"
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY -"Art from Life"
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY -"Landscapes"
2005 Woodstock Day School, Woodstock, NY - Art Auction
2004 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY -"The 5 x 7 Show" - 1999 - 2003
2004 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY -"An American Sampler"
2004 Red Raven Gallery, Big Sky, MT -"Grand Opening Exhibition"
2003 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY - Members Show - 1997, 1999 - 2001
2003 Rhein-Hudson-Bridge International Exchange, Cologne, Germany -"Pot Luck," sponsored by A.S.K.
2002 City Hall, Kingston, NY -"Kingston Library Live Art Auction"
2001 Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT -"Four Artists"
2000 City Hall, Kingston, NY -"Kingston Library Live Art Auction"
1997 A.S.K. Gallery 61, Kingston, NY -"Small Wonders"
1997 The Gallery Frame Shop, New Paltz, NY -"Summer Inspirations"
1997 Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY -"From Kingston to Poughkeepsie"
1996 The Loft Gallery, Kingston, NY - A.S.K. Members Exhibition
1996 Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NY -"Landscape Retrospective"
1996 Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY -"Artexpo '96," Booth #1259
1995 Donskoj & Company, Kingston, NY -"Toys by Artists"
1995 Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY -"Hudson Valley Sampler - Group Exhibition"
1994 Warwick Gallery, Warwick, NY - Group Show
1994 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Paintings - Drawings," Callahan, McKenna, Moore
1994 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Grand Opening Group Exhibition"
1993 Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY -"Buhalis and His Influence"
1993 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Drawing Exhibition"
1992 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Holiday Show"
1992 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Paintings of Vermont"
1992 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Four Artist Drawing Exhibition"
1991 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Group Exhibition"
1990 Livingston-Strauss Gallery, New York, NY -"Small Paintings Show"
COMMISSIONS
2009 Chamber of Commerce, Saugerties, NY - Hors'n Around Saugerties - "Roja Cenozoa" painted horse
2008 Woodstock Day School - "Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY"
2006 Private Collection -"Sleeping Giant, Near Helena, MT"
2003 Myakka City Lemur Reserve, Myakka City, FL -"Red Lemurs"
2003 Private Collection -"Trees at Canyon de Chelly III"
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Tower Products, Inc., Saugerties
Markertek, Inc., Saugerties, NY
Anyone Can Whistle, Shokan, NY
Doug Henderson, Avon, Inc., VT
Bread Alone, Inc., Woodstock, NY
Blaire Hotels, Cody, WY
Laird Telemedia, Saugerties, NY
The Loft Gallery, Kingston, NY
Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY Cornucopia, Dorset, VT
REVIEWS
2011 Smart, Paul "Painting in the West." Woodstock Times, Oct 13, 2011
2009 Brunner, Betsey. "How others see us." Arizona Daily Sun, Jan 18, 2009
2009 Stanley, J. "NY artists capture the Colorado Plateau in 'Painted Journeys' exhibit." Arizona Republic, Jan 9, 2009
2008 Mountain, M. "Museum of Northern Arizona announces 'Painted Journeys Exhibit." Gateway to Sedona, Dec 13, 2008
2002 Lane, Dakota. "Zen in a few forms. Art as a mind-expanding experience." Almanac, March 2002
2002 Cassai, Mary. "Strong fauve exhibit on display in Woodstock." Daily Freeman, March 2002
1996 Shine, James G. "Fine artwork displayed locally." Daily Freeman Preview Section, May 24, 1996
1995 Norklun, Kathi. "Leaves fall, art soars." Woodstock Times, September 1995
1993 Horn, Gerald. "Splendid mentor." Woodstock Times, July 14, 1993
1992 Lane, Dakota. "Figure times four." Woodstock Times, September 10, 1992
1991 Isaacs, Lei. "'Study to become great' - Buhalis pupils eschew mediocrity...."Woodstock Times, April 15, 1991
PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGS
2010 Ross Rice. "Bringing a Little West Back East" Roll Magazine, January, 2010, pp. 8-12
2009 Cassai, Mary. "Three Eastern Artists and one Western Museum Create the Perfect Storm." Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, April, 2009, pp. 53-56
2009 Museum of Northern Arizona. "Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau," Exhibition Catalog, pp.21-34
2008 Cassai, Mary. "Painted Journeys," Western Art Collector Magazine, December, 2008, pp. 118-121
2008 Booth Western Art Museum."Works from the Permanent Collection," Catalog, pp. 77
2007 Visions West Gallery. "A Western Art Revolution," Exhibition Catalog, 2007
2007 Straub, Noelle. "Taking Art to Africa - Diplomat uses art as uniting force," Billings Gazette, Billings, MT, July 08, 2007
2007 Smart, Paul. "Abbott, McKenna, van Rijn in New York," Woodstock Times, Kingston, NY, May 17, 2007
2007 Fenson, Mel."Katharine McKenna's Western Landscapes" Colorado Magazine Online, Boulder, CO April 2007
2006 Smart, Paul."Beauty & the butte," Almanac, Woodstock Times, Kingston, NY, Jan. 5, 2006, pp. 10-11
2005 Samuels, Renee. "Conversation with Katharine McKenna," Guide Magazine, Hunter, NY, Dec. 2005, pp. 126-137
2005 Sedley, Jeremy, Exec. Editor. New Art International. Book Art Press, Woodstock, NY, copyright 2005, pp. 42-45
2004 Abbott, Judy. "Art and Environmentalism: An Ethic of 24 Artists of the Hudson Valley," Exhibition Catalog, 2004, p. 36
2003 Cassai, Mary. "Kingston's Golden Girl," Kaatskill Life Magazine, Delhi, NY, Summer, 2003, pp. 76-80
2002 Uchmanowicz, Pauline. "Kingston's Thriving Art Community," Guide Magazine, Hunter, NY, Nov. 2002, pp. 96-100
2002 Yanow-Schwartz, Jo. "The Rhine-Hudson Bridge for Art Galleries," Art World News, Sept. Issue, 2002, pp. 42-44
2002 Sedley, Jeremy, Exec. Editor. New Art International. Book Art Press, Woodstock NY, copyright 2002, pp. 114-115
2002 James, Gordon. "Katharine L. McKenna," Looking Glass Magazine, September 2001, March 2002
2000 Sveikauskas, Geddy. "Toward the Light, painter Katharine McKenna leads the way...." Woodstock Times, April 27, 2000
1997 Schweitzer, Blaise. "Benefit showcases Kingston arts," Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY, September 5,1997
1997 Arango, Jorve. "An Artful Revival," Hudson Valley Magazine, March 1997, pp. 28-32
1997 Osmond, S. F., Arts Editor. "Toward the Light," World & I Magazine, Washington Times Corp., March 1997, pp. 104-109
1996 Zimmermann, L. "Katharine McKenna '68: An Artist With Thanks to Ann McGavin," Apple Tree, Vol. 7, No. 3
1987 Dwight-Englewood Today. "Katharine McKenna Exhibits Toy Design." DE School, Englewood, NJ, Spring Issue, 1987
MEDIA
2012 Grammy Foundation, LA - 4 images of Don McLean and Arlo Guthrie used for Grammy Foundation presentation
2006 High Country News, Paonia, CO - Image used for Convention Banner
2006 ABC Network Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Episode April 9, 2006. Two paintings featured
2005 ARD German Television documentary directed by Tilman Buettner,"Alle Zeit der Welt" (All the Time in the World)
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
NextMonet.com, Limited Edition Giclees - four paintings, 250 prints of each
Grand Image, Ltd., Limited Edition Giclees
LECTURES
ArtBridge, Kingston, NY - "Connects Public to the Arts." Curatorial Panel
2013 Woodstock School of Art - Presentation of art and teaching style
2007 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ -"Painted Journeys"
2007 The National Arts Club, New York, NY, Wesleyan Alumni Chapter Meeting -"The Art of K.L. McKenna"
2006 Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ -"Industrial Design and Fine Art - Career Options"
2005 Woodstock Day School High School, Woodstock, NY -"Industrial Design - A Career Option"
2004 Kiewit Institute, College of Information and Technology, University of Nebraska, Omaha -"Interaction Design: Where Art, Design and Nonverbal Thought Meet Computer Science"
2002 Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY - Saturday Lecture Series,"The Art of K.L. McKenna"
AWARDS / HONORS
2006 Distinguished Alumni Award, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ
2006 Honoree, Fall For Art, The Jewish Federation of Ulster County, NY
2002 Honoree, Galaxy of Stars, Ulster Community College Foundation, NY
1986 Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Magazine,"The Constitution Exhibit, '86, Promise of Permanency," NPS, Philadelphia
CREDITS
Listed in the American Artists Blue Book - www.AskArt.com
National Museum of Women in the Arts - Recorded in the Archives on Women Artists
PATENTS
1988 U.S. Patent #4.722.712 granted for"The Geozoo," a geometric toy
ASSOCIATIONS
Woodstock School of Art - Teacher, "Painting for Life" and "Adventures with Color"
Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY
Pratt Institute - Board of Trustees since 2002
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild - Member since 1999. Former Board Member
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum - Member since 1999
Arts Society of Kingston - Co-founder 1995, current President, Board of Directors
Born 1956, Berkeley, California
Through the unique usage of color, light and spirit, K.L. McKenna's style captures the landscape in a most unexpected way. Her paintings are not just paintings of landscapes but color harmonies of a very high and unusual order.
Her inspiration for the west comes from childhood summers spent prospecting for fossils in Wyoming with her paleontologist father and family. K.L. McKenna's scenes of Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming and Montana reflect her enthusiasm and spiritual connection to the geology of the west, where she paints on site throughout the year.
K.L. McKenna, a resident of Woodstock, NY and Ward, CO, has had extensive experience working for museums and top exhibition design firms in New York, such as Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Albert Woods Design. She worked throughout the United States and Canada as a graphical user interface designer for major banking firms such as Citibank, First Boston and Lehman Brothers. K.L. McKenna was awarded a U.S. Patent for "The Geozoo," an educational toy design. She studied painting first with Mary Buckley at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and later with Nicholas Buhalis at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston, NY.
In 2005, K.L. McKenna exhibited 24 of her paintings in the Borderlands Gallery at the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA. She has participated in the annual auctions "Expanded Horizons," Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, and the "Annual Buffalo Bill Cody Show and Sale," Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY. She is listed on AskArt.com, the blue book on American artists. She has exhibited in a variety of galleries across the United States and in Germany, and her work is included in many corporate and private collections.
She is currently on the Board of Trustees at Pratt Institute. She is Vice President of the Arts Society of Kingston (A.S.K.), which she cofounded in 1995, and holds memberships with the Woodstock Artists Association and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.
Artist Statement
The energy that flows through my hands and onto the canvas is something that I describe as my Color, Light and Spirit technique, which has become my signature. My life's work is to illuminate the mind in an exciting new way - not to defy tradition, but to expand assumption.
Through my formal education, I was trained to discover color in shadow and to use many hues and values to create light. The use of line and space in my compositions combine abstract elements with the figurative which are sculpturally fused by bright color.
My paintings of the west begin on site where I've spent my summers for over 40 years. The reds of Wyoming and Arizona - the brilliant yellows and greens of Colorado and Montana are my passion.
My work as a contemporary American artist appeals to a certain kind of collector - one who is spiritually drawn to the uninhibited use of color and light.
Resume
EDUCATION
1984 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. MID - Master of Industrial Design
1979 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. BA in American Studies / Minor in Anthropology
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2009 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ -"Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau"
2005 Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA -"Illuminating the Mind: Soulful Works by K.L McKenna"
RESIDENCIES
2007 Museum of Northern Arizona Artist-in-Residence Program, Flagstaff, AZ
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA
Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ
CURATED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2011 Gallery 501, Villanova, PA
2008 Woodstock School of Art Gallery, Woodstock, NY - Preview Exhibition"Painted Journeys on The Colorado Plateau"
2007 Elisa Pritzker Gallery, Highland, NY -"Powerful Women"
2007 The National Arts Club, New York, NY -"Painted Journeys - In Search of the Sublime"
2006 U.S. Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa - U.S. Department of State"Art in Embassies" program
2005 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY -"Byrdcliffe / Second Century 'continuing the tradition'"
2004 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Art and Environmentalism: An Ethic of 24 Artists of the Hudson River Valley"
2003 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY -"Small Works Invitational"
2003 Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY -"The Painted Vase III," Silent Auction
UPCOMING EVENTS
2013 Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, AZ - "Cowgirl Up" March 22 - May 5, 2013
2013 Nature in Translation Visions through Painting and Photography - Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, NJ May 2013
2013 Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY, "WYOMING: Paintings by K.L. McKenna" Sept 3 - 28, 2013
2014 Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY "Painted Journeys: New Visions of the American West" Jan 17 - May 2, 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 WFG Gallery, Woodstock, NY - "Color & Light: The Spirit of Big Sky Country"
2010 Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY - "New West Expressions - Works by K.L. McKenna"
2008 Visions West Gallery, Bozeman, MT -"Meet Me Here - Paintings by K.L. McKenna"
2006 Swartly Gallery, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ -"Color, Light and Spirit"
2005 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Spirit Boats and Figures - Trina Greene and K.L. McKenna"
2004 Red Raven Gallery, Big Sky, MT -"Form and Color - K.L. McKenna and Jacqueline Rieder Hud"
2004 Dolce Gallery, Telluride, CO -"On the Way to Telluride"
2004 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY -"A Body of Work - K.L. McKenna and Bruce Currie"
2002 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY -"Color Harmonies from the West"
2001 Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY - Featured Artist
2000 Bruynswick Gallery, Gardiner, NY - Solo Show - 1999
1998 West Strand Grill, Kingston, NY -"Landscapes"
1997 Blue Mountain Bistro, Woodstock, NY -"Watercolors"
1997 Rivendell Gallery, New Paltz, NY -"Wyoming Landscapes"
1997 Carambola, Saugerties, NY -"Figures, Still Lifes and Landscapes"
1997 New World Cafe, Woodstock, NY -"Color, Light and Spirit"
1995 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Callahan and McKenna: Watercolors From Greece"
1995 Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NY -"Paintings and Drawings"
1994 Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT - Solo Alumni Exhibition
1993 Depuy Canal House, High Falls, NY- Solo Drawing Exhibition
JURIED
2009 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT -"Expanded Horizons" Annual Auction - 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
2006 The Jewish Federation of Ulster County, Kingston, NY -"Fall For Art" Annual Show - 1997, 1999-2004
2001 Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY -"Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale" - 1999, 2000
1994 Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY -"All Media Exhibition" - 1993
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY - January, February
2008 Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY - A.S.K. Artist Open Studio Tour - 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006
2006 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"External Light"
2005 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Gift Show"
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY -"Small Packages"
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY -"Art from Life"
2005 Enderlin Gallery, Roxbury, NY -"Landscapes"
2005 Woodstock Day School, Woodstock, NY - Art Auction
2004 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY -"The 5 x 7 Show" - 1999 - 2003
2004 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY -"An American Sampler"
2004 Red Raven Gallery, Big Sky, MT -"Grand Opening Exhibition"
2003 Kleinert / James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY - Members Show - 1997, 1999 - 2001
2003 Rhein-Hudson-Bridge International Exchange, Cologne, Germany -"Pot Luck," sponsored by A.S.K.
2002 City Hall, Kingston, NY -"Kingston Library Live Art Auction"
2001 Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT -"Four Artists"
2000 City Hall, Kingston, NY -"Kingston Library Live Art Auction"
1997 A.S.K. Gallery 61, Kingston, NY -"Small Wonders"
1997 The Gallery Frame Shop, New Paltz, NY -"Summer Inspirations"
1997 Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY -"From Kingston to Poughkeepsie"
1996 The Loft Gallery, Kingston, NY - A.S.K. Members Exhibition
1996 Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NY -"Landscape Retrospective"
1996 Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY -"Artexpo '96," Booth #1259
1995 Donskoj & Company, Kingston, NY -"Toys by Artists"
1995 Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY -"Hudson Valley Sampler - Group Exhibition"
1994 Warwick Gallery, Warwick, NY - Group Show
1994 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Paintings - Drawings," Callahan, McKenna, Moore
1994 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Grand Opening Group Exhibition"
1993 Gallery at Park West, Kingston, NY -"Buhalis and His Influence"
1993 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Drawing Exhibition"
1992 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Holiday Show"
1992 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Paintings of Vermont"
1992 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Four Artist Drawing Exhibition"
1991 Buhalis Gallery, Kingston, NY -"Group Exhibition"
1990 Livingston-Strauss Gallery, New York, NY -"Small Paintings Show"
COMMISSIONS
2009 Chamber of Commerce, Saugerties, NY - Hors'n Around Saugerties - "Roja Cenozoa" painted horse
2008 Woodstock Day School - "Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, NY"
2006 Private Collection -"Sleeping Giant, Near Helena, MT"
2003 Myakka City Lemur Reserve, Myakka City, FL -"Red Lemurs"
2003 Private Collection -"Trees at Canyon de Chelly III"
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Tower Products, Inc., Saugerties
Markertek, Inc., Saugerties, NY
Anyone Can Whistle, Shokan, NY
Doug Henderson, Avon, Inc., VT
Bread Alone, Inc., Woodstock, NY
Blaire Hotels, Cody, WY
Laird Telemedia, Saugerties, NY
The Loft Gallery, Kingston, NY
Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY Cornucopia, Dorset, VT
REVIEWS
2011 Smart, Paul "Painting in the West." Woodstock Times, Oct 13, 2011
2009 Brunner, Betsey. "How others see us." Arizona Daily Sun, Jan 18, 2009
2009 Stanley, J. "NY artists capture the Colorado Plateau in 'Painted Journeys' exhibit." Arizona Republic, Jan 9, 2009
2008 Mountain, M. "Museum of Northern Arizona announces 'Painted Journeys Exhibit." Gateway to Sedona, Dec 13, 2008
2002 Lane, Dakota. "Zen in a few forms. Art as a mind-expanding experience." Almanac, March 2002
2002 Cassai, Mary. "Strong fauve exhibit on display in Woodstock." Daily Freeman, March 2002
1996 Shine, James G. "Fine artwork displayed locally." Daily Freeman Preview Section, May 24, 1996
1995 Norklun, Kathi. "Leaves fall, art soars." Woodstock Times, September 1995
1993 Horn, Gerald. "Splendid mentor." Woodstock Times, July 14, 1993
1992 Lane, Dakota. "Figure times four." Woodstock Times, September 10, 1992
1991 Isaacs, Lei. "'Study to become great' - Buhalis pupils eschew mediocrity...."Woodstock Times, April 15, 1991
PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGS
2010 Ross Rice. "Bringing a Little West Back East" Roll Magazine, January, 2010, pp. 8-12
2009 Cassai, Mary. "Three Eastern Artists and one Western Museum Create the Perfect Storm." Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, April, 2009, pp. 53-56
2009 Museum of Northern Arizona. "Painted Journeys on the Colorado Plateau," Exhibition Catalog, pp.21-34
2008 Cassai, Mary. "Painted Journeys," Western Art Collector Magazine, December, 2008, pp. 118-121
2008 Booth Western Art Museum."Works from the Permanent Collection," Catalog, pp. 77
2007 Visions West Gallery. "A Western Art Revolution," Exhibition Catalog, 2007
2007 Straub, Noelle. "Taking Art to Africa - Diplomat uses art as uniting force," Billings Gazette, Billings, MT, July 08, 2007
2007 Smart, Paul. "Abbott, McKenna, van Rijn in New York," Woodstock Times, Kingston, NY, May 17, 2007
2007 Fenson, Mel."Katharine McKenna's Western Landscapes" Colorado Magazine Online, Boulder, CO April 2007
2006 Smart, Paul."Beauty & the butte," Almanac, Woodstock Times, Kingston, NY, Jan. 5, 2006, pp. 10-11
2005 Samuels, Renee. "Conversation with Katharine McKenna," Guide Magazine, Hunter, NY, Dec. 2005, pp. 126-137
2005 Sedley, Jeremy, Exec. Editor. New Art International. Book Art Press, Woodstock, NY, copyright 2005, pp. 42-45
2004 Abbott, Judy. "Art and Environmentalism: An Ethic of 24 Artists of the Hudson Valley," Exhibition Catalog, 2004, p. 36
2003 Cassai, Mary. "Kingston's Golden Girl," Kaatskill Life Magazine, Delhi, NY, Summer, 2003, pp. 76-80
2002 Uchmanowicz, Pauline. "Kingston's Thriving Art Community," Guide Magazine, Hunter, NY, Nov. 2002, pp. 96-100
2002 Yanow-Schwartz, Jo. "The Rhine-Hudson Bridge for Art Galleries," Art World News, Sept. Issue, 2002, pp. 42-44
2002 Sedley, Jeremy, Exec. Editor. New Art International. Book Art Press, Woodstock NY, copyright 2002, pp. 114-115
2002 James, Gordon. "Katharine L. McKenna," Looking Glass Magazine, September 2001, March 2002
2000 Sveikauskas, Geddy. "Toward the Light, painter Katharine McKenna leads the way...." Woodstock Times, April 27, 2000
1997 Schweitzer, Blaise. "Benefit showcases Kingston arts," Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY, September 5,1997
1997 Arango, Jorve. "An Artful Revival," Hudson Valley Magazine, March 1997, pp. 28-32
1997 Osmond, S. F., Arts Editor. "Toward the Light," World & I Magazine, Washington Times Corp., March 1997, pp. 104-109
1996 Zimmermann, L. "Katharine McKenna '68: An Artist With Thanks to Ann McGavin," Apple Tree, Vol. 7, No. 3
1987 Dwight-Englewood Today. "Katharine McKenna Exhibits Toy Design." DE School, Englewood, NJ, Spring Issue, 1987
MEDIA
2012 Grammy Foundation, LA - 4 images of Don McLean and Arlo Guthrie used for Grammy Foundation presentation
2006 High Country News, Paonia, CO - Image used for Convention Banner
2006 ABC Network Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Episode April 9, 2006. Two paintings featured
2005 ARD German Television documentary directed by Tilman Buettner,"Alle Zeit der Welt" (All the Time in the World)
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
NextMonet.com, Limited Edition Giclees - four paintings, 250 prints of each
Grand Image, Ltd., Limited Edition Giclees
LECTURES
ArtBridge, Kingston, NY - "Connects Public to the Arts." Curatorial Panel
2013 Woodstock School of Art - Presentation of art and teaching style
2007 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ -"Painted Journeys"
2007 The National Arts Club, New York, NY, Wesleyan Alumni Chapter Meeting -"The Art of K.L. McKenna"
2006 Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ -"Industrial Design and Fine Art - Career Options"
2005 Woodstock Day School High School, Woodstock, NY -"Industrial Design - A Career Option"
2004 Kiewit Institute, College of Information and Technology, University of Nebraska, Omaha -"Interaction Design: Where Art, Design and Nonverbal Thought Meet Computer Science"
2002 Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY - Saturday Lecture Series,"The Art of K.L. McKenna"
AWARDS / HONORS
2006 Distinguished Alumni Award, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ
2006 Honoree, Fall For Art, The Jewish Federation of Ulster County, NY
2002 Honoree, Galaxy of Stars, Ulster Community College Foundation, NY
1986 Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Magazine,"The Constitution Exhibit, '86, Promise of Permanency," NPS, Philadelphia
CREDITS
Listed in the American Artists Blue Book - www.AskArt.com
National Museum of Women in the Arts - Recorded in the Archives on Women Artists
PATENTS
1988 U.S. Patent #4.722.712 granted for"The Geozoo," a geometric toy
ASSOCIATIONS
Woodstock School of Art - Teacher, "Painting for Life" and "Adventures with Color"
Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY
Pratt Institute - Board of Trustees since 2002
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild - Member since 1999. Former Board Member
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum - Member since 1999
Arts Society of Kingston - Co-founder 1995, current President, Board of Directors