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02/17/2016 11:01 PMThe work of William Kent (1919-2012), a Durham printmaker and sculptor, will be featured at the Sis Summit Gallery at 6 Summit Street in Ivoryton through Wednesday, April 13.
Kent created a body of work that numbers in the thousands. Leave the Moon Alone is homage to one of Kent’s unapologetic, political prints owned by Yale University.
This eclectic show featuring subject matter that includes nature, politics, and erotica. The hand made prints were created by carving huge Italian slate blackboards, and reproducing on fabric and rice paper, without a printing press.
Five of Kent’s monumental wooden sculptures are also on display with content that reflects everyday items such as a hammer, shoe, key, shoehorn, and a crushed beer can. The hand carvings complement 32 prints in the first of a series of shows at the Six Summit Gallery
Kent, who many consider one of America’s greatest printmakers and sculptures, lived as a recluse. His work was included alongside such artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, and Phillip Guston. He attended Yale University, was the first curator of the John Slade Ely House, and exhibited at some the finest museums and galleries including The Wadsworth Atheneum, Sundsvall Sweden, Colgate, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Sex,
New Britain Museum of American Art and more. His work is in the collections of Smithsonian, Brooklyn Museum, Princeton University, New Britain Museum of American Art, Lyman Allen Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Florence Griswold, and many more.
Private viewings and receptions are available. For more information, call 860-581-8332 or visit www.sixsummitgallery.com.
This information provided by Six Summit Gallery.