KENNY SCHARF
2014-02-24Born in Hollywood in 1958, Kenny Scharf studied Graphic Art at BFA School of Visual Arts of New York. After he graduated in 1980, he was established as one of the first artists to connect Contemporary and Street Arts as Jean-Michel Basquiat or Keith Haring.
After his exhibitions at the Fun Gallery in 1981 and the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1984, Kenny Scharf showed his work across the world and his paintings appeared in most museums’ permanent collections as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam.
Scharf’s art is strongly influenced by Pop Culture (mainly TV). He develops a unique cheerly and bright street art work qualified as “Pop Abstract Surrealism” with a Free Figuration mind.
His work brings out a kind of “Eternel Youth” in an utopian and nostalgic world both comic and enthusiastic. He uses various technics like oil and acrylic paintings, glitter dust, and even created his very own range of spray paintings.
Exhibition runs through to April 5th, 2014
Colette
213 rue Saint-Honoré
75001
Paris
