KENNY SCHUYLER lives and works in Highlands NJ. He graduated from The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in NYC with a bachelors in Fine Art with a focus on sculpture and has been creating art ever since. Kenny realized that the energy of a room usually revolves around a table, in order to have a room revolve around his sculpture he made his sculptures tables. The great thing about steel Schuyler says, "You can paint it shiny so it looks new or you can rust and beat the hell out of it so it looks hundreds of years old". He usually chooses the later of the methods giving his steel furniture, especially the "Pieces" coffee tables, a "Contemporary Antique" look. The style is not really contemporary and seems to predate traditional antiques by hundreds of years.

Kenny developed a sculptural style, 3-D Drawing with Steel Bars. He uses smooth steel bars with different diameters as lines of a steel sketch. He created the "Horse of Steel" for The Meadowlands Racetrack which is a life-size horse using his 3-D Drawing process. 3-D Drawing also won national acclaim being selected in 1992 by the Association of Visual Artist (AVA) in Chattanooga Tennessee, Artist-in Residence Program. This program is meant to bring the process of the artist to the public by inviting artist to create in downtown Chattanooga where people can watch and ask questions of the artist as they create.

Kenny is also a painter. "A sculpture is an object, a painting is a picture of an object", seems to explain where Kenny Schuyler is painting from, or away from. He paints atmosphere not objects which is evident in his "Voids" series of paintings. The really interesting thing is that while he is denouncing realism as secondary to sculpture, he chooses to use shapes to describe his atmosphere instead of expressing it with massive color.

Although all his work does have a common theme it is hard to explain what that theme is.

Read the Tri-City News press release.

E-mail Kenny at: kenkick@gmail.com