The exhibition features more than 100 works spanning over six decades of Jeffrey Kronsnoble’s artistic career. Among them is a series he returned to repeatedly called “boxes,” referring to collaged images constructed and mounted in shadow boxes. The assemblages are painted, often using a dry-brush oil technique, in hyper-realistic detail. Broken, layered and obscured imagery creates fragmented, mysterious compositions that incorporate recognizable images from news and popular media, family photographs and historical artworks.
Kronsnoble’s artistic practice has been as varied as his collages and cannot easily be confined to a single style. Over the decades, he has painted landscapes, trompe l’oeil still lifes, expressionistic abstractions and portraits of family members and civic leaders, often juxtaposing these subjects within the same painting. He works in watercolor, acrylic, dry-brush oil, graphite, assemblage and collage, pursuing multiple approaches concurrently and using whatever medium and style inspire him on a given day. Now in his 80s, he continues to create art daily.
Kronsnoble was born in 1939 in Milwaukee, Wis. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan in 1963. That same year, he joined the art faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he taught for 40 years before retiring in 2003.
His work is represented in the permanent collections of art museums in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville and New Orleans, as well as in more than 175 public, corporate and private collections. Kronsnoble’s awards include the William A. Paton and Thomas B. Clarke prizes from the National Academy of Design in New York and three Individual Artist Grants from the Florida Division of Arts and Culture.
Opening in the Edith-Marie Gallery on the first floor.
(pictured) “Postcard XXIV E,” 1995, Jeffrey Kronsnoble (American, b. 1939), Oil on silk, 44 x 44 in., On loan from the artist.
Director’s Circle Reception
Friday, October 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Join us to celebrate the opening of “Jeffrey Kronsnoble: Master of Allusion, A Life of Art” with hors d’oeuvres and wine. Be the first to see the exhibition before the artist gives a talk in the auditorium at 6:30 p.m. This event is open to Appleton Director’s Circle members. RSVP is required to Colleen Harper, harperc@cf.edu, or 352-291-4455, ext. 1831.