Kevin van Aelst | Photography

On view March 16- March 29 , 2015

EBK Gallery [small works].
218 Pearl St.
Hartford, CT

 

“I want to show you the pictures in my head. The daydreams I have. My wandering thoughts, fears, interests, obsessions. These images are my attempt to bring them to life.
These photographs and constructions consist of common artifacts from everyday life which have been rearranged, reassembled, and repurposed into various forms, patterns and illustrations. The images aim to examine the distance between my thoughts and the materials around me that inspire those fixations. A roll of blue painters tape in on a shelf becomes a distant and quiet view of the sea. A memory of a memory slowly dissolves and recedes like a photograph within a photograph within a photograph. This work is about the creating order where randomness is expected and hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas.” K.V.A.

I want to be the first person to get a “Van Aelst Lens” when they become available!
I’ll pay good money for one of those. To see the world through that…wow. Can you imagine, everywhere and anywhere you look, strange, hilarious, dark and wonderful ideas would just fill your head all day. When one views the artwork of Kevin Van Aelst everything is so, so, obvious. Of course it is. But until he photographed it, you would never know it could exist. There’s definitely that magic of “I can’t wait to see what happens next” when following this artist. –E.B.K.

 

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CV / Resume

Kevin Van Aelst

EDUCATION
2005 M.F.A. Photography. Hartford Art Schol, West Hartford, CT
2002 B.A. Psychology. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015
EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
2014
Searching For Sea Monsters, Kohn-Joseloff Gallery, Cheshire, CT
2012
Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
Stonecrop Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Elsewhere, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2011
Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
M. Eleanore Juros Gallery, Kingswood Oxford, West Hartford, CT
2010
Elsewhere, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Kevin Van Aelst, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, CT
2009
Catalogue 4.25.09, Catalogue Gallery, Hartford, CT
2008
Minutia, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
2007
Phases of the Moon and Other Lessons in Science, Khaki Gallery, Wellesley, MA
2005
Step Up, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Silpe Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Seeing Things: Seven Photographers, Adolf and Virgina Dehn Gallery, Manchester, CT
Por Oaxaca, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
Wicked Winter, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
New Construction: Six Photographers, Windsor Art Center, Windsor, CT

2013
Futurecast, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Still Action! Gallery 1708, Richmond, VA
Contemporary Cartographies, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Time and Time Again, Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2012
Rendered Extraordinary, Broad Street Gallery, Hartford, CT
It’s Your Nature, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, CT
Disperse and Converge, Artspace Hartford, Hartford, CT
Summer Group Exhibition Extravaganza, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
Family Haunts, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
Double Oversight, Gallery 70, New Haven, CT
Material Measure, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
Toys and Games, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville MA

2011
I think it’s Conceptual, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Bingo, Sharpshooters Studio, Knoxville, TN
Gala Benefit, Artspace, New Haven, CT
New Britain Museum of American Art Benefit Gala, New Britain, CT
Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Photolucida Touring Exhibition
Paper or Plastic, Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council, Bridgeport, Connecticut

2010
Flash Forward 2010, Magenta Foundation Festival of Emerging Photographers, Traveling
Artist as Curator, Kehler Liddel Gallery, New Haven, CT
Artplace XVI, Yale Physician’s Building, New Haven, CT
Conspectus I, Artspace, New Haven, CT
New Visions, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Matters of Pattern, Grant Recipient Exhibition, CCT, Hartford, CT
New Britain Museum of American Art Spring Gala, New Britain, CT

2009
Refurbished Means, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Favorite Things, Ken Jones Jr. Gallery, Easton, PA
PRC Benefit Auction, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Disperson, and Index II, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Exposure 2009, Photographic Resource Center of Boston University, Boston, MA
A Parade of Happy Dreams, Gallery at 70 Audubon, New Haven, CT
Status Update, Haskins Laboratory Gallery, New Haven, CT
New Britain Museum of American Art Spring Gala, New Britain, CT
Beyond a Boundary, Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

2008
Where is your Beauty Marked? Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT
The Little Apple, Ken Jones Jr. Gallery, Easton, PA
PRC Benefit Auction ’08, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Art and Math, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA
Vintage Reserve: ACES/ECA Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 70, New Haven, CT
2008 Artspace Gala Benefit Auction, Artspace, New Haven, CT

2007
lack +White and Red Upstairs, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
What is Big?, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament Players’ Lounge Exhibition, Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT
Celebrating Genius: ECA Faculty Exhibition, Gallery at 70 Audubon, New Haven, CT
Texas National Art Exhibition, SFA University Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
Table Tops, Haskins Laboratory Gallery, New Haven, CT
Gala Fundraising Art Auction, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Earth and Sky: Juried Exhibition, Firehouse Gallery, Milford, CT
Mini: Exhibition of Miniature Art, Guilford Art Center, Guilford, CT
Store Front Window Installation for New Haven Arts Council, New Haven, CT
Places: Juried Exhibition –1st prize, Firehouse Gallery, Milford, CT

2006
Pure: An Exhibition, Boston, MA
The Human Figure: Juried Exhibition –2nd prize, Firehouse Gallery, Milford, CT
Flatfile: New Additions to the Collection, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Real Party Fund Raiser Exhibition, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Gala Art Auction Flatfile Preview Exhibition, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford,
West Hartford, CT.

2005
Goldfarb Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Images 2005, Shoreline Art Alliance, Guilford, CT

2004
Printmaking, Painting, Photography, Silpe Gallery, Hartford Art School, West
Hartford, CT.
Arts + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers, New York, NY
Summer in the City, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
Emerging, Philip Allen Gallery, New York, NY
Artworks Juried Winter Show, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
Goldfarb Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2003
Works in Progress, Silpe Gallery, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT

COLLECTIONS
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Artspace Flatfile, New Haven, CT

AWARDS AND GRANTS
Goodman Banks Artist In Residence, Kingswood Oxford School, West Hartford, CT 2011
Critical Mass Top 50 finalist, Photolucida, 2010
Flash Forward U.S. Winner, the Magenta Foundation, 2010
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Artist Fellowship Grant, 2008
Northeast Exposure Online, Featured Artist: August, 2008
Visiting Artist Honoraria: Hartford Art School, 2010, Southern Connecticut State University, 2008
Milford Fine Arts Council Artist in Residence: 2006-2007, Milford, CT

EDITORIAL WORK
Khanna, Parag, “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony,” New York Times Magaine, New York, New
York, January 2008. (Cover and four interior photo illustrations).
T: Living, New York Times Style Magazine, New York, NY, May 2007. (Featured Photograph
Illustration)
Virginia Heffernan,“The Medium,” New York Times Magazine, New York, NY, October 2007 –
present (Weekly Photograph accompanying column)
Additional Clients: Boston Globe, Business Week, GQ, Courier International, Men’s Health, Fast
Company, Atlanta, Proto, Cookie, Women’s Health, Money, Scientific American, Time,
Nido.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
American Photography 21, Amilus Publishers, New York, 2005.
Data Flow2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design, Die Gestalten Verlag Publisher, 2010.
Erratic: Visual Impact in Current Design, Gestalten Publisher, 2011.
Glueck, Grace, “Art in Review,” New York Times, New York, NY, July 29, 2005 (Show
Review).
McNally, Owen, “Artistry You Can Chew On,” Hartford Courant, Hartford, Ct, July 29,
2005 (Show Review and Essay).
NcNally, Owen, “Kevin Van Aelst,” Real Art Ways Exhibition Catalogue and Essay.
Muhlke, Christine. “Timeless: Wonder Bread,” New York Times Style Magazine, New
York, NY, November, 2004. (Editorial Photograph Illustration).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Photography Instructor, Educational Center for the Arts Magnet High School, 2007 – present
Digital and Darkroom Photography
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University, Spring 2006 – Spring 2011
ART 158 Photography I
ART 250/255 Introduction to Black and White Photography
ART 300 Digital Photography
Adjunct Professor, Middlesex Community College, Spring 2007
Art 141 Photography 1
Adjunct Professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Fall 2005
Photography 220: Introduction to Black and White Photography
Photography Instructor, Willard Straight Hall Community Darkroom, Cornell University,
September 2000 – May 2002.
Teaching Assistant, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Fall 2005
The View Camera, Color Photography