GRAND OPENING AT VISIONS WEST GALLERY, DENVER FEATURES K.L. MCKENNA'S WORK

Visions West Gallery expands from Montana to Colorado

(Kingston, NY) Sept 6,  2007 -- K.L. McKenna has been invited to participate in "Western Art Revolution", the grand opening show for the new Visions West Gallery in Denver, CO.  Visions West Galleries are dynamic art galleries striving to push the boundaries of Western art.  McKenna has been featured at Vision West Galleries in Bozeman and Livingston, MT since their conception in 2006.

The grand opening for Visions West Denver is September 28, 2007, 1715 Wazee St., Denver, CO (303)292-0909

Photos From the Opening: http://www.303magazine.com/galleries/visionwest/index.htm

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today.  Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world.  K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN ARIZONA LAUNCHES NEW ARTISTS' RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Residency is the Museum's First

(Kingston, NY) Sept 6,  2007 -- K.L. McKenna, Judy Abbott and Eva van Rijn, three New York Hudson Valley artists, are the first artists to participate in a new residency program instituted at the Museum of Northern Arizona.  The residency program will bring visiting artists to the museum for three week periods of work and research.  The residency will provide artists of all disciplines the opportunity to create their work while immersed in the geography and regional culture of the Colorado Plateau and giving them access to the wealth of the Museum's collections.

Lectures on the works of McKenna, Abbott and Rijn are scheduled for September 22, 2007 at the museum in Flagstaff, AZ.  Call for details, 928-774-5211.

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today.  Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world.  K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB EXHIBITS THREE WOODSTOCK ARTISTS

Three Woodstock, NY painters showcase recent work both common in theme and individual in style at the National Arts Club, New York City, NY

Photos from the Opening at the National Arts Club on May 22, 2007 in New York City

Woodstock, NY(Woodstock, NY) May 1, 2007 -- Painted Journeys • In Search of the Sublime brings together the talents of three Woodstock, NY painters who are dedicated to a common subject, the American western landscape.  Abbott, van Rijn and McKenna share a reverence for the land that is expressed through their work.  Passionate colors jewel like brilliance and awesome atmosphere portray a celebration of the sublime.

Following a Woodstock tradition, these artists spend time painting in America's western states.  Their work expresses a sense of the spiritual power of the great vistas and intimate places of mesas, canyons and deserts.  Abbott says, "Abandoning the traditional precepts and techniques in which I was trained, I seek to perceive and convey a sense of the unique spirit of a place.  Working on location allows me the sublime experience of being part of a sacred place, one in which I belong."  McKenna adds, "I was fortunate to have been brought up in a family that honored and cherished nature.  The way I was taught to explore and prospect the land gave me a sensitive appreciation and ability to evoke the divine essence of the natural west in my paintings."  van Rijn says, "I look for places that inspire in me a sense of awe and sometimes even of danger.  I want my paintings to express that sense of vastness, because along with it comes an accompanying awareness of inner space, only occasionally viewed, hardly explored."

Individually each artist holds their own in style and technique.  Whereas Abbott demonstrates magical detail in her body of work, McKenna paints with sweeping expressionistic strokes.  Where van Rijn's impressionistic depictions of the vast landscape are atmospheric in their realism, Abbott's work takes realism and presses it beyond the natural state into an other worldly scene.   Abbott uses detail to convey a special sense of place and time, McKenna uses color to present an interpretative sensitivity that amplifies joy and hope in the subject matter.  van Rijn uses a softness and subtlety in her paintings that is so clear that the viewer literally feels they are sitting on the edge of the canyon. 

On view from May 22 through June 2, 2007 at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, the exhibition is made possible through the Invited Artists' Gallery Exhibition program.  An opening reception will be held Tuesday, May 22 from 6 - 8 pm.

Judy Abbott received a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1970, where she classically trained in the tradition of the old masters.  In 1970 she moved to her ancestral home of the Catskill Mountains, where a deep love of nature was heightened by her growing awareness of the Hudson River School of Painters as well as the teachings and art of Native Americans.  A belief in the unity of the creator, nature and art continue to inspire her to participate in environmental causes and exhibitions.  Abbott has been associated with such galleries as the Marian Locks Gallery in Philadelphia, PA: the Staempfli Gallery in New York City: and the Albany Institute of History and Art.  She co curated the exhibition "River Sounding Project" with Alan Gussow at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA, as well as "A Continuum: Contemporary Painters in the Tradition of the Hudson River School." Her work is included in the collections of the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Dorsky Museum, the Palmer Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.  In 1992 and 2006, Abbott received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and in 2004 she received "The Native American Heritage Award" from Bergen Community College.

Eva van Rijn was born in Den Hague, Holland, 1936 and emigrated to the United States with her parents during World War II.  The family settled in Woodstock, NY where the vitality and creativity of a thriving art community formed the basis for her artistic style and work ethic.  She attended the Academia de Belle Arte in Florence, Italy.  She spent summers exploring western United States with her family, which ultimately became the inspiration for her art.  van Rijn continues the camping tradition, creating Plein-Air paintings that become the basis for larger paintings in her studio. She and her daughter Maia Chavez have exhibited together in the exhibition, "Red Canyons / Blue Sky," in Woodstock and Beacon, NY.  van Rijn recently won Juror's Choice Award "Paint America," a national competition, and her painting "Gunnison in Low Light" is on tour with the exhibition's "Top 100".  Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI and in the Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT.  She has exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S., Holland and Japan.

K.L. McKenna, born in Berkeley, CA, received a BA from Wesleyan University, CT in 1979 and a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, NY.  McKenna has exhibited solo at the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA and is included in the museum's permanent collection.  She has participated in the annual auctions "Expanded Horizons," Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, 2003 - 2007, and in the "Annual Buffalo Bill Cody Show and Sale," Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY, 1998 - 2000.  She is listed on AskArt.com, The American Artists Blue Book.  She has exhibited in a variety of galleries across the United States and in Germany, and her work is included in many collections.  She is represented by Visions West Gallery in Bozeman, MT and Stonebridge Western Treasures, Madison, GA.  She recently finished a commission for a private collector.  In 2006, her paintings were featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC Television.  She is presently on the Board of Trustees at Pratt Institute and is current president of the Arts Society of Kingston, which she co founded in 1995.

For more information, visit www.judyabbott.com, www.evavanrijn.com, www.klmckenna.com

K.L. MCKENNA IS FEATURED ARTIST IN COLORADO MAGAZINE ONLINE PUBLICATION

K.L. McKenna is featured artist in Colorado Magazine Online publication.

(Kingston, NY) April 1,  2007 --  K.L. McKenna is the featured artist in the art section of the April publication Colorado Magazine Online, Coloradomagazineonline.com.

Colorado Magazine Online provides Photo-Feature coverage of a wide variety of topics, including: Art, Music, Travel, Food, Finance, Fashion, Nature, Science, People, Places and Happenings in Colorado and The Southwest.  It is published by Finson-Hood Marketing, Boulder, Colorado and Mel Fenson is Editor/Publisher, (303)702-0228.

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today.  Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world.  K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL HONORS K.L. McKENNA AS DISTINGUISHED ALUMNA

Katharine L. McKenna, class of 1974, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ, is honored as distinguished alumna

(Kingston, NY) October 28, 2006 -- Katharine L. McKenna, class of 1974, returns as a distinguished honoree at Dwight-Englewood School's Reunion and Homecoming Weekend October 27, 28, and 29. A diverse array of her work, including her signature Western oil landscapes, watercolors of Mexico and her figurative pastels will be featured at Dwight-Englewood's Swartly art center from September 25 through October 28, 2006. She will be lecturing to the school's 1,000 kindergarten through 12th grade students on October 6.

Dwight-Englewood School has purchased "Savery Creek, Boyer Ranch, WY", a painting exhibited there for their permanent collection.

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF ULSTER COUNTY HONORS KATHARINE L. MCKENNA

"Katharine L. McKenna helped develop fundraising event"

(Kingston, NY) September 7,  2006 -- The Jewish Federation of Ulster County, Kingston, NY awarded $1,000 to the Arts Society of Kingston in honor of Katharine L. McKenna at their tenth anniversary "Fall for Art" juried show.  McKenna was "the driving force who, 10 years ago, steered our fledgling Jewish Foundation committee to undertake an Art Show & Sale, now known as Fall for Art,"  a successful fundraising art exhibition and sale with an attendance of 350 or more.  "When we asked Katharine if she thought we should undertake such an endeavor, her response was, "Go for it!!" and we did," says Barbara Cohen, committee chair.

Katharine L. McKenna is currently president of the Arts Society of Kingston and one of the original founders of the organization.

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today.  Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world.  K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

US AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE IN OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO EXHIBITS K.L. MCKENNA PAINTINGS

(Kingston, NY) September 6, 2006 -- The exhibit "Art in Embassies" features two K.L. McKenna paintings at US Ambassador Jeanine Jackson's residence in Ouagadougou, in the West Africa Republic of Burkina Faso.

"I am very honored to have an exhibit representing Wyoming and Montana artists and am especially happy that your ‘Wyoming Farmland Triptych' and ‘Bluffs at ‘Fiddleback Ranch, Wyoming' are featured works of this small exhibition," writes Ambassador Jackson.

This exhibit will provide opportunity for the very interested Burkinabe, as well as students from the American International School, to compare African art to American "new west" art.

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today.  Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world.  K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

BANNER OF "WIND RIVER CANYON" FLIES High Country News of Paonia, Colorado uses image of K.L. McKenna's "Wind River Canyon" for conference banner. (Kingston, NY) August, 2006 -- K.L. McKenna's painting "Wind River Canyon" is being used by High Country News for a six foot banner they plan to use for conferences. "It looks more amazing in person, everyone here absolutely loves it and it will stay on display at HCN in between conferences," writes Carmela Hensyel, High Country News staff. The original "Wind River Canyon", oil on board, 25" x 20", by K.L. McKenna resides in the permanent collection of the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA. High Country News, Paonia, CO, covers 11 Western states. It is the source for news, analysis and commentary on water, public lands, wildlife, grazing, logging, mining, wilderness, growth, politics and other issues changing the face of the West. It is for people who care about the West. Find High Country News at www.hcn.org ### K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

EXTREME MAKOVER: HOME EDITION SELECTS TWO PAINTINGS BY K.L. McKENNA FOR APRIL EPISODE

Television show gains in popularity and taste.

(Kingston, NY) April 10, 2006 -- Two of K.L. McKenna's paintings, "Front Range, Silver Spruce Ranch, CO" and "Cedar Mountain, Big Horns, WY" were requested for an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to be aired on ABC, Sunday, April 9th, 2006 at 8pm. The two hour episode will feature the Craft Family in San Antonio,Texas.

Be sure to keep an eye for for Katharine's paintings in the Great Room!

"The show garnered an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality Program, and awards garnered during the second season include the People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show/Makeover and the Family Television Award for Best Alternative/Reality Program.

Each episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is self-contained and features a race against time on a project that would ordinarily take at least four months to achieve, involving a team of designers, contractors and several hundred workers who have just seven days to totally rebuild an entire house -- every single room, plus the exterior and landscaping.

The lives of the lucky families are forever changed when they learn that they have been selected to have their home walls moved, their floors replaced and even their facades radically changed. The result should be a decorator's delight... if it can be done in time. The viewers witness not only the unbelievable transformation of the house, but during the final and emotional reveal, they see how the home makeover has impacted the lives of the deserving families.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is produced by Endemol USA, a division of Endemol Holding. David Goldberg is President of Endemol USA. The series is executive-produced by Tom Forman and premiered December 3, 2003, on the ABC Television Network." http://www.abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT REQUESTS PAINTINGS BY K.L. MCKENNA

The U.S. State Department's "Art in Embassies Program" sends 2 K.L. McKenna paintings to Africa

(Kingston, NY) March 24, 2006 -- Two of K.L. McKenna's paintings, "Bluffs at Fiddleback Ranch, WY" and "Wyoming Farmland Triptych" were requested by Ambassador Jeanine Jackson through the U.S. State Department's "Art in Embassies Program" for placement in her new diplomatic residence in Ouagadougou, in the West Africa Republic of Burkina Faso. Ambassador Jackson, who was recently confirmed as Ambassador to Burkina Faso, is a native of Sheridan, Wyoming.

"Established by the United States Department of State in 1964, the Art In Embassies Program is a global museum that exhibits original works of art by U.S. citizens in the public rooms of approximately 180 American diplomatic residences worldwide. These exhibitions, with art loaned from galleries, museums, individual artists, and corporate and private collections, play an important role in our nation's public diplomacy. They provide international audiences with a sense of the quality, scope, and diversity of American art and culture through the accomplishments of some of our most important citizens, our artists." -- Art in Embassies Program - http://aiep.state.gov/mission.html

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

PAINTING BY K.L. MCKENNA IS SELECTED FOR MUSEUM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION

"Wind River Canyon" has been selected for the permanent collection of the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA

(Kingston, NY) January 11, 2006 -- James Burns, Director of Curatorial Services and the collections committee of the Booth Museum in Cartersville, Georgia have selected K.L. McKenna's painting "Wind River Canyon", oil on board, 25 x 20 inches, for their permanent collection. In writing to McKenna, Burns notes "The committee unanimously agrees that this is a superb example of your work and makes a wonderful addition to the Museum's existing holdings."

The Booth Western Art Museum, an 80,000 square foot facility, is dedicated to featuring contemporary Western American art. The museum is located at 501 Museum Drive, Cartersville, GA, about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta, GA (770-387-1300) .

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS PAINTINGS BY K.L. MCKENNA

The Booth Western Art Museum, a state-of-the-art 80,000 square foot facility in Cartersville, near Atlanta, GA is hosting an exhibition of paintings by K.L. McKenna

(Cartersville, GA) August 20, 2005 --- The Booth Western Art Museum, a state-of-the-art 80,000 square foot facility in Cartersville, near Atlanta, GA is hosting an exhibition of works by K.L. McKenna

The exhibition, which is titled "Illuminating the Mind: Soulful Works by K.L. McKenna" runs September 20 through November 13, 2005 and the "Meet the Artist" reception is October 20, 5pm- 8pm. The museum, which opened in 2003, features contemporary Western American art and is located about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta.

McKenna's vibrant landscape paintings of the West feature her unique usage of color, light and spirit, and are being presented in the 800 square foot Lower Level Lobby Gallery that hosts a variety of exhibitions by Southern and Eastern artists whose works reflect the American West.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

K.L. McKENNA GIVES LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, OMAHA, NOVEMBER 3, 2004

The lecture, "INTERACTION DESIGN: Where Art, Design and Nonverbal Thought Meet Computer Science," will be presented at the Kiewit Institute, College of Information Science and Technology.

(Omaha, NE) October 12, 2004 -- Katharine is one of the "New Breed" that combines Art and Computer Science. Katharine L. McKenna has a BA in American Studies with a minor in Anthropology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut and a Master of Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She has had numerous solo and juried shows. Her paintings are currently represented by several galleries including Dolce in Telluride, CO, Windham Fine Arts in Windham, NY, Red Raven Gallery in Big Sky, MT. She also has her own art gallery, the Coffey Gallery in Kingston, NY.

Before embarking upon her career as a painter of fine art, she worked throughout the United States and Canada as a graphical user interface designer for exhibition design firms and major banking firms including Citibank, First Boston, and Lehman Brothers. She was awarded a U.S. Patent for "The Geozoo" an educational toy designed specifically to stimulate nonverbal thought.

Peter Kiewit Institute room 279. November 3, 2004, 12PM

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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

TELLURIDE GALLERY DOLCE JEWELS FEATURES THE WORK OF WOODSTOCK ARTIST K.L. McKENNA

"On The Way To Telluride", a solo exhibition of western landscapes by K.L. McKenna, will be on display during July at Dolce Jewels, Telluride, CO.

(Telluride, CO) June 30, 2004 -- Telluride -- Dolce Jewels is featuring new work of K.L. McKenna in the show "On The Way To Telluride" July 2 through July 31, 2004. Located at 226 W Colorado Avenue in Telluride. Dolce Jewels specializes in fine jewelry, gemstones and fine art. K.L. McKenna will be traveling from Woodstock, NY to be present at the opening reception on Saturday, July 10, from 4 to 9pm. The exhibition will consist of recent oils of Wyoming in addition to works painted in and around Telluride. The uninhibited use of color and light in these vibrant, colorful paintings have made K.L. McKenna very much in demand with collectors.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER FROM GERMANY FILMS K.L. McKENNA

German television ARD interviews K.L. McKenna for series to be aired on German television.

(Kingston, NY) April 28, 2004 -- Kingston --German director Tilman Buettner of ARD, German Television, filmed K. L. McKenna painting in her studio for a documentary film about time. The film examines the subject of time from different vantage points, from high speed society to a slower paced lifestyle. The five part series, produced by Renee Silverman in New York, shows how high end career personalities have successfully gotten off the fast track onto a slower one. The film , titled "Zeitreisen" which means "Time Travel" when translated, will be aired on ARD German Television next fall.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

WINDHAM FINE ARTS EXHIBITS THE WORK OF K.L. McKENNA

Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY exhibits the work of artist K.L. McKenna in show "A Body Of Work"

(Windham, NY) March 12, 2004 -- Windham -- Windham Fine Arts proudly presents K.L. McKenna in the show "A Body of Work", March 12 through April 4, 2004. Opening reception, Saturday, March 13, 4:30 - 6:30pm .
K.L. McKenna comes to Windham Fine Arts after showing in such diverse venues as the annual auction at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT and the Annual Buffalo Bill Cody Show and Sale in Cody, WY. In her pastel figures, K.L. McKenna uncovers color in shadows and uses many hues to create light. The choices are always unexpected, but delightful. She combines abstract elements with the figures to sculpturally fuse them with heavily saturated hues. The two person show will be complimented by Bruce Currie, who has been in the Woodstock art scene since the 1940's.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

THE YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM ANNUAL AUCTION SUPPORTED BY K.L. McKENNA DONATION

Yellowstone Art Museum auctions K.L. McKenna's "Three Trees At Canyon de Chelly" at their premier fund-raising event

(Billings, MT) March 6, 2004 -- Billings -- The Yellowstone Art Museum, a major contemporary art museum in Billings, MT, celebrated its 36th Annual Party and Auction on March 6, 2004. K.L. McKenna's oil painting,"Three Trees At Canyon de Chelly", was one of the 156 pieces of art work bid on by over 550 patrons. This auction is the museum's premier benefit fund-raising event. Revenues from the event go to support all facets of the museums operations.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

BIG SKY, MONTANA'S RED RAVEN GALLERY REPRESENTS ARTIST K.L. McKENNA

Red Raven Gallery, the new contemporary gallery in Westfork Meadows, Big Sky, MT represents landscape artist K.L. McKenna.

(Big Sky, MT) January 15, 2004 -- Big Sky -- The newly opened Red Raven Gallery has included artist K.L. McKenna in their stable of fine artists. The Red Raven Gallery, located in Big Sky, MT, has carved its own niche in town and is also featuring the works of acclaimed contemporary artists such as Gennie DeWeese, Harold Schlotzhauer, Cydette Vikander, Heather Carisch. "I am more then pleased to show my work in Montana again, and look forward to painting more scenes from the area," says K.L. McKenna.

The work of K.L. McKenna, including oil paintings from Wyoming and Colorado, will be featured in a two person exhibition at Red Rave in September, 2004. Also exhibiting will be Jacqueline Rieder Hud, whose work mines the self-expressive potential of figurative painting, working in the Expressionist manner. Both artists favor the fauvist school. The exhibition opens September 16, 2004. For further information please call Red Raven Gallery, PO Box 160328, Big Sky, MT 59716, (406) 995 - 4145.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

THE WOODSTOCK GUILD, WOODSTOCK, NY EXHIBITS WORK OF K.L. McKENNA

For the fifth consecutive year, the Kleinart/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY sells the work of K.L. McKenna in the annual Woodstock Guild's "5 X 7 Show"

(Woodstock, NY) December 2, 2003 -- Woodstock -- K.L. McKenna participates in the Woodstock Guild's annual "5 X 7 Show" at the Kleinart/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY. This is a special exhibition of over 100 original works of art on 5 x 7 canvases, each being anonymous until after purchase. K.L. McKenna's work continues to sell for the fifth consecutive year. The proceeds go toward the Kleinart/James Exhibition Program of The Woodstock Guild.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

SENATE HOUSE SHOWS K.L.McKENNA WORKS WITH THE ARTISTS' SOCIETY OF KINGSTON

The Senate House in Kingston, NY shows work of diverse, select group of Hudson Valley Artists

(Kingston, NY) October 25, 2003 -- Kingston -- K.L. McKenna participates in the Artists' Society of Kingston's show "Kaleidoscope" at the Senate House, Kingston, NY. The show, October 25 and 26, 2004, includes a diverse and select group of Hudson Valley artists.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

GERMAN GALLERIES EXHIBIT SIX K.L. McKENNA PAINTINGS

K.L. McKenna exhibits six paintings in Germany with the Arts Society of Kingston in the Rhine-Hudson-Bridge Exchange show titled "Potluck"

(Cologne, Germany) October 17, 2003 -- Cologne-- The Rhine-Hudson-Bridge Exchange Exhibition titled "Potluck", sponsored by the Arts Society of Kingston, features 26 artists from the Kinston area. The exhibition opens in Cologne, Germany on October 17, 2003. Six paintings of K.L. McKenna will be on exhibit in the Brauweiler Abbey, Brauweiler, Germany and in the Cultural Center Lohrerhof, Hurth, Germany through October.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION CHOOSES K.L. McKENNA DRAWING

Drawing by K.L. McKenna chosen for the Woodstock Artists Association Woodstock Beau Arts Ball Journal

(Woodstock, NY) August 30, 2003 -- Woodstock -- The Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY chooses drawing of K.L. McKenna for the Woodstock Beau Arts Ball Journal. The journal and the ball, presented Saturday, August 30, 2003, celebrates and honors Woodstock, the "Colony of the Arts", and its creative past, while inspiring and uplifting its creative present.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

PRINCE STREET GALLERY, NY, NY INVITES K.L. McKENNA TO EXHIBIT

Prince Street Gallery, NY, NY, selects the work of K.L. McKenna for "Small Works Invitational 2003"

(NY, NY) July 15, 2003 -- New York City -- Prince Street Gallery, located in the vibrant section of Chelsea, New York City, NY selects K.L. McKenna for "Small Works Invitational 2003" July 15 - August 2, 2003. The Prince Street Gallery is a long standing cooperative gallery in New York City.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

KAATSKILL LIFE MAGAZINE FEATURES ARTICLE ON K.L.MCKENNA

Nationally sold New York regional magazine salutes K.L.McKenna's
painting career and her focus on Kingston‘s artistic community.

(Kingston, NY) June 30, 2003 -- Kingston -- Kaatskill Life Magazine features an article about Katharine L. McKenna in their latest Summer 2003 Issue. The article, written by Mary Cassai, called "Kingston's Golden Girl" gives a history of McKenna's career path. "At age 20 she left college, rather than wasting her father's money. She believed the route to maturity was through a career, but which one?" That path included exhibition and industrial design, graphical user interface and database design - to finally painting western landscapes. The feature goes on to explain how she started the Coffey Gallery in Kingston as well as her role in the birth of the Arts Society of Kingston, which currently has more than 300 members.
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY. K.L. McKenna participates in "The Painted Vase III Silent Auction
FLETCHER GALLERY, WOODSTOCK, NY, K.L. McKENNA PARTICIPATES IN "THE PAINTED VASE III" SILENT AUCTION

(Woodstock, NY) June 29, 2003 -- Woodstock -- "The Painted Vase III" Silent Auction held at the prominent Fletcher Gallery in Woodstock, NY, is to benefit the Woodstock Play House. All Vases are hand thrown by Rich Conti and painted by prominent Woodstock artists.
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K.L. McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L. McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

K.L.McKENNA PLANS PAINTING TRIP TO THE WEST

Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Colorado comprise current plans to visit

(Kingston, NY) June 12, 2003 -- Kingston -- Contemporary American Artist K.L.McKenna will be traveling to Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Colorado in July on a painting trip with her family. "It's that time of year again when I feel the need to go out west and gather new material, new inspiration, new sites. I can never get enough of the long distance vistas the west is known for." K.L.McKenna is planning on creating at least 18 new oil paintings this summer.
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION COMMISSIONS K.L.McKENNA TO PAINT RED LEMURS

K.L. McKenna travels to Reserve to paint Lemurs from Madagascar

(Myakka City, FL) March 10, 2003 -- Myakka City -- Contemporary American Artist, K.L. McKenna has been commissioned to do a painting of lemurs for the Myakka City Lemur Reserve by the Lemur Conservation Foundation. K.L.McKenna traveled to Florida where she studied the Lemurs in their habitat. Upon her arrival to the reserve, one lemur rushed down the tree, climbed up her leg and back onto her shoulder, where he proceeded to further introduce himself by licking her cheek.

The painting will become part of the permanent collection at the reserve and will be used for the image on the foundation's annual calendar. Penelope Bodry-Sanders, the foundation's director, says, "I just love it - The painting is so joyful in a time that seems so sad. What a terrific addition it will be to our collection and exactly what I was hoping for being familiar with your work. You really are good." The painting depicts four red lemurs in different positions in trees and on the ground, using K.L.McKenna's hallmark color-light-spirit technique.
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

PRATT INSTITUTE ELECTS KATHARINE L. McKENNA TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES

K.L. McKenna Nominated To Board of Pratt Institute
World Renowned Art & Design Institute Expands Vision !

(Kingston, NY) November 26, 2002 -- New York -- Contemporary American Artist, K.L. McKenna has been elected to the Board of Trustees of Pratt Institute. Chosen for her experiences, background and interests, K.L. McKenna will serve a three year term beginning on December 11, 2002.

Robert H. Siegel, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pratt said, "Pratt is an extraordinary and vital school consisting of art, design, architecture, and information and library sciences. I look forward to working with. . . [K.L. McKenna], as does President Schutte and each of our trustees, in furthering Pratt's reputation, quality and resources."

Pratt Institute is a college founded 116 years ago by Charles Pratt. He revolutionized higher education by challenging the traditional concept as purely an intellectual exercise. Today, more than any other art and design school, Pratt offers undergraduate majors more than 20 programs and graduate majors more than 15 majors. The first art teacher at Pratt was a pupil of Cezanne; the second art teacher, a student of Matisse. The college campus is located in Brooklyn, New York. For more information on Pratt, please visit www.pratt.edu.
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM SELECTS WORK OF K.L.McKENNA

Yellowstone Art Museum selects "Red Wall at Hole in the Wall" for annual exhibition "Expanded Horizons"

(Kingston, NY) November 26, 2002 -- The Yellowstone Art Museum, a major contemporary art museum in Billings, Montana has selected "Red Wall at Hole in the Wall" an oil painting by K.L.McKenna for the 37th annual exhibition and auction "Expanded Horizons," an important fund raiser for the museum. The longest running annual auction of its kind, it showcases artists from all over the country, from Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Vermont, New York, Florida, Colorado and California. A broad spectrum of contemporary art is auctioned both silent and live. Painting, sculpture and photography range from $200 - $80,000 each. The exhibit runs January 24, 2003 - March 1st, the day of the auction.
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN GUIDE MAGAZINE VISITS THE STUDIO OF K.L.McKENNA

The Guide salutes Kingston's thriving art community, crediting K.L.McKenna

(Kingston, NY) November 6, 2002 -- Catskill Mountain Guide interviews K.L.McKenna about her role in founding the Arts Society of Kingston (A.S.K.) in Kingston, NY.

The interview highlights K.L.McKenna's work, "Not be missed in the Uptown Kingston portion of tour 2002 was exhibition curator McKenna's own studio.... Her vibrant oil on canvas paintings capture western vistas - the buttes of Wyoming and landscapes of Montana - in burnt red, orange, yellow, and green reminiscent of Gauguin's impressions of Tahiti. Partially a plein-air painter, McKenna begins many pieces on location with raw under paintings, broad, figurative brushstrokes rendered in Prussian blue against ochre-sienna tinged back color. Though she holds a master's degree in Industrial Design from Pratt, her undergraduate study of native American artifacts more openly seeps into pieces such as Paradise Valley and Flat Tops Wilderness."
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

FOUR K.L.McKENNA PAINTINGS SELECTED BY INTERNATIONAL ART PUBLICATION

Book featuring select group of national and international artists sells at museum book stores

(Woodstock, NY) October 28, 2002 -- Book Art Press selects four oil paintings by K.L.McKenna to be printed in the latest annual publication of New Art International. K.L.McKenna is featured on pp. 114 -15 with four color plates; "Paradise Valley"; "Sawtooth and Rocky MT Rain"; "Flat Tops Wilderness, CO" and "Shell Creek Canyon." The hard bound book is being sold through the Museum of Modern Art Book Store, Metropolitan Museum Store, Barnes and Noble, Rizzoli's and other fine bookstores. The 2002 - 2003 edition will be available late November, 2002.
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

COLLEGE FOUNDATION HONORS KATHARINE L. McKENNA AND MARK BRAUNSTEIN AT "GALAXY OF STARS" GALA DINNER

"Katharine L. McKenna and Mark Braunstein launch a gentle but persistent force in Ulster County..."

(Kingston, NY) October 4, 2002 -- Ulster Community College Foundation honors Katharine L. McKenna and Mark Braunstein for their contributions to the community by promoting the arts and through their personal generosity. The College Foundation states that, "The entire community is grateful to Katharine and Mark for their commitment, ‘to continue to work toward the goals of bringing light and hope... to inspire and respect... to reach out into our communities helping our neighbors worldwide.'"
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

WORLD RENOWNED ART MAGAZINE INTERVIEWS KATHARINE L. McKENNA

Art World News asks how an artist entrepreneur is willing to take risks with art and international exchanges

(Kingston, NY) September 2002 -- Art World New Magazine focuses on how artist- gallery owner Katharine L. McKenna has impact in the art world. "Katharine McKenna of Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY, thinks the artist entrepreneur may be more willing to take risks than the ‘professional' dealer and is more community-minded....Her Coffey Gallery carries eight artists representative of her ‘interest in unsafe art...'"
The article also features The Rhine-Hudson Bridge German Exchange Program, which Katharine L. McKenna is helping to organize. "The program energized things and helped put us on the map." The article goes on to say that the Coffey Gallery exhibited art from Cologne, Germany in May, and that artists from the Hudson River Valley will be exhibiting in Cologne, Germany in the Fall of 2003. The exhibit will be called, "Pot Luck From America."
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

LOOKING GLASS MAGAZINE MAGNIFIES THE PAINTING PROCESS OF K.L.McKENNA

Monthly news publication focuses on artist's signature color/light/spirit technique

(Kingston, NY) March 2002 -- Gordon James of Looking Glass Magazine publishes in-depth interview on the unique color/light/spirit technique of K.L.McKenna. She says about painting in Wyoming, "When I'm there, I have an experience with the land. I have an intimate relationship with the land for that moment, then I come back and revisit that feeling in the studio as I paint."
Most notably are McKenna's comments on a sudden change of style while painting recently. She says, "Before, I was doing what I was taught, which was to follow the lines, to describe boundaries with line. Recently I've worked through the line and have been painting with a more atmospheric style. The line is still there underneath for structure. But now for example I'll find myself combining the sky with the earth."
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

KINGSTON TIMES HIGHLIGHTS HOW PAINTER KATHARINE L. McKENNA LEADS THE WAY FOR NEW SPIRIT ON KINGSTON'S WALL STREET

K.L.McKenna starts trend of artists buying real estate in Uptown Kingston

(Kingston, NY) April 27, 2000 -- Kingston Times publishes article highlighting how Katharine L. McKenna enjoys the new circumstances on Kingston's Uptown Wall Street. She says in the article that the arts have always propelled other uses. The article goes on to say that "Artists are able to transform space in ways which other people appreciate. There's room in Kingston for artists, space that's 20 minutes from Woodstock and two hours from New York City."
"‘I like being where it's real,'" she says, "‘and it feels real here in Kingston.'"
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

HUDSON VALLEY MAGAZINE INTERVIEWS KATHARINE L. McKENNA ABOUT ART AS A TRUE ECONOMIC ENGINE

Article highlights McKenna's active leadership in the Kingston art scene

(Kingston, NY) March 1997 -- Hudson Valley Magazine interviews Katharine L. McKenna, president of the Arts Society of Kingston, in article "An Artful Revival," about the recent influx of artists arriving in Kingston, NY. McKenna states, "Our goal is to promote the arts, visual, poetry, music -- and create exhibition opportunities. We've also been writing a newsletter and we're trying to get artists in Kingston to meet each other."
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.

WORLD WIDE MAGAZINE FEATURES ART OF KATHARINE L. McKENNA

Washington Post's World and I Magazine reviews the work of Katharine L. McKenna

(Kingston, NY) March 1997 -- World and I Magazine article "Toward the Light" features the work of Katharine L. McKenna in their March issue. Six full color plates of paintings are presented along with an in-depth interview about her painting process and life history.
Writes Osmond, who wrote the article, "...vivid color--along with an almost musical treatment of nuanced tones and interconnecting lines and structure--is the hallmark of her work."
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K.L.McKenna is one the most successful contemporary American artists on the landscape today. Her work is featured in galleries and private collections throughout the world. K.L.McKenna illuminates each painting with her signature color-light-spirit technique.