Kenneth Peloke: Battle Tested

Join us at Gallery MAR on Friday, December 5th, for a special evening with artist Kenneth Peloke as we celebrate his newest exhibition, “Battle Tested.” Through striking portrayals of horses, bison, and wild landscapes, Peloke explores freedom, instinct, and the untamed spirit of the West. 

Variations, transparency, layering, and certain techniques all allow Kenneth Peloke to naturally generate the subtle inconsistencies in his paintings, making each piece unique and imperfect, like us. From this, the natural and realistic aspects of his work are achieved. For Kenneth Peloke's practice, chance and choice unite to create work with potential to move an individual as much as the artistic process moves him.

“Since I can remember, I always enjoyed taking things apart and rebuilding them. But at a young age, I found myself not remembering how to reassemble exactly the way it came apart. It became challenging and fascinating for me to create a new way to put things back together. I became obsessed with trying to make things different or improved, at least in my own mind.” Through experimentation and self-teaching, Kenneth has learned to use all of his past works- whether it is landscapes, people, animals, abstracts, design or photography- in his current work. “Being a self-taught artist, and also colorblind, led to years of frustration, but through trial and error, methodically over the years I have found what works for me. I work with many layers, different substrates, and all types of media. Instead of using colors to create depth; I use my surface. I feel it is the most important element of my work.”