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Guy Kinnear

RESUME

Education:

  • 1998 MFA: San Francisco Art Institute
  • 1995 BA: Art General Studio, Minor in Biblical Studies, Azusa Pacific University
  • 1993 General Studies, Cuesta Community College

Solo Exhibits:

  • 2017  4 Cats Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA The Homunculus Cycle
  • 2012  Steynberg Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
  • 2011  Jamaica You, San Luis Obispo, CA,  Under the Surface
  • 2010  Demossa Gallery, Laguna CA
  • 2008  Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, Ceilings
  • 2007  Bluebird Art House, Whittier CA
  • 1999 – 2003  Kinnear Studio, Pomona, CA
  • 2001  Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
  • 1996  Biola University, La Mirada, CA,  Tabernacle. Installation
  • 1995  Jamaica You, San Luis Obispo, CA
  • 1995  Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA,  Tabernacle. Installation

Group Exhibits: 

  • 2022  Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, A Kind of Heaven
  • 2021  William Rolland Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA, The Otherworld
  • 2019  Beverly Hills Art Fair, Beverly Hills, CA
  • 2019  Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, The Illusionists
  • 2017   Studios in the Park, Paso Robles, CA, America: The Promise
  • 2017   Fleur De Boom, Pasadena, CA, 1 Year(ish) Anniversary Pop-up Event
  • 2017   Studios in the Park, Paso Robles, CA,The Gun Show
  • 2016   CBU Gallery, Riverside, CA Into the Mystic: The Quest of Six West Coast Artists
  • 2012   Seeds Fine Art Exhibits, Grove Center for the Arts, Hollywood, CA, The Last Word.  
  • 2010-2011Traveling show: Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA. & Biola University, La Mirada, CA,  Dark Inheritance: Purposeful Dislocation
  • 2009  San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA,  Corpora in Extremis
  • 2009  Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA,  More With Less
  • 2008  Jose Drudis Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2007  316 W. 2nd Street, Downtown Los Angeles, CA,  First Annual Art & Music Soiree
  • 2003  Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
  • 2002  Jamaica You, San Luis Obispo, CA
  • 2001  Cuttress Gallery, Pomona, CA,  Portraits
  • 2000 DA Center For the Arts, Pomona, CA,  Vehicles
  • 1999   Art Student Retreat, San Clemente, CA, Sticks and Stones and Sand
  • 1998   Catacombs, San Francisco, CA, Explorations of Seven:
  • 1998   Fort Mason Center, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
  • 1995   Plotkin Gallery, Lakeview CA
  • 1994   Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, Beast of Burden Video Production.
  • 1994   Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, Lest We Forget
  • 1992   Cuesta Community College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
  • 1990   San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA

Professional Experience:

  • 2014 – present Cuesta Community College, San Luis Obispo, CA
    •  Art Instructor
  • 2014 – present SLO Classical Academy, San Luis Obispo, CA
    •  Art Instructor
  • 2006 – 2017 Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
    • MFA & BFA Associate Professor Painting & Drawing
  • 1998 – 1999  Bridgemont High School, San Francisco, CA
    •  High School Art Teacher
  • 1998  San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
    • Teacher’s Assistant in Anatomy Drawing
  • 1995 – 1996 Metal Arts Sculpture Center, Paso Robles, CA
    •  Bronze Sculpture Finisher

Professional Service in the Community:

  • 2020   San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA Online
    • Workshop Instructor: Color Theory and Color Gamuts
  • 2020   Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL 
    • Guest Speaker Workshop Instructor, Guest Critiquer: Golems, Wretches & Landscapes
  • 2018   San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
    • Guest Speaker Art at High Noon: The Sublime and the Beautiful
  • 2017   Paso Robles Art Association, Paso Robles, CA
    • Guest Speaker: Artist and Model 
  • 2016   San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
    • Guest Speaker Art at High Noon “The Historic Nude”
  • 2014   Inter Varsity Campus by the Sea, Catalina, CA
    • Speaker: When Intellect and Beauty Meet
    • Workshop: VisualJournaling
  • 2014    San Luis Obispo Methodist Church, San Luis Obispo, CA
    • Juror: BEACON ART SHOW: an open medium, open genre, juried exhibition on the Divine gift of art making from multiple faith traditions
  • 2011  Paso Robles Art Association, Paso Robles, CA
    • Juror: CONSTRUCTION ZONE: original works of collage, assemblage and multiples.
  • 2011   San Luis Obispo Museum, San Luis Obispo, CA
    •  Juror: INSIDE OUT: original oil, pastel, acrylic and mixed media paintings united by the shared theme of self portraiture. 
    • Presentation: The Evaluation of Self-portraiture as a Subject in a Multi-Genre Context.
  • 2005, 2006, USC Conference for Seniors
    •  Returning Guest Speaker & Discussion Group Leader: Crisis in the Isenheim Altarpiece & the Brothers Karamazov
  • 2005  CIVA Convention, Azusa Pacific University CA
    • Workshop Presenter: Model and Artist: Dynamics in Life Drawing
  • 2004 – 2005  Metro Gold Line, Azusa CA
    • Aesthetics Committee Member
  • 2001  Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
    • Guest Artist & Lecturer for Art & Theology Festival: Spirituality in the Mundane

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A quick Icarus study... Just because #oilsketch A quick Icarus study...

Just because 

#oilsketch #oilpainting #figurepainting #figurativeart #icarus #sun #artistmodel #baroquelight #painting #art
WINDOW #6: LADY WISDOM Karl Hemmeter's HOLLOW TOOT WINDOW #6: LADY WISDOM
Karl Hemmeter's HOLLOW TOOTH-RESURRECTION REDUX

Hagia Sophia
Chokmah: חָכְמָה
Sapientia

Wisdom Speaks:

“Adonai made me as the beginning of Adonai’s way,
the first of Adonai’s ancient works.
I was appointed before the world,
before the start, before the earth’s beginnings.
When I was brought forth, there were no ocean depths,
no springs brimming with water.
I was brought forth before the hills,
before the mountains had settled in place;
Adonai had not yet made the earth, the fields,
or even the earth’s first grains of dust.
When Adonai established the heavens, I was there.
When Adonai drew the horizon’s circle on the deep,
when Adonai set the skies above in place,
when the fountains of the deep poured forth,
when Adonai prescribed boundaries for the sea,
so that its water would not transgress Adonai’s command,
when Adonai marked out the foundations of the earth,
I was with Adonai as someone Adonai could trust.
For me, every day was pure delight,
as I played in Adonai presence all the time,
playing everywhere on Adonai’s Earth,
and delighting to be with humankind."

Proverbs 8:22-31

#illustration #digitalillustration #humanfigure #humanbody  #wisdom #ladywisdom #hagiasophia #femalefigure #divinewisdom #makebeautiful #beauty #inspiration  #human #figurativeart #meditation #mystic #mysticism #christianmysticism #visionaryart #expressiveart #surrealism #art #drawing
WINDOW #8: SHEDDING SKIN Odilon Redon's GREEN DEAT WINDOW #8: SHEDDING SKIN
Odilon Redon's GREEN DEATH REDUX

It’s been a rough two weeks

Life is tough, but when the brain chemistry is off in addition to the toughness of life… well. 
It just feels like drowning
Like being eaten alive
Like I can’t tell if I am in the belly of the beast, 
or if i am already the beast

But the Beloved calls
i remember
i am not alone
i am never alone

And thank God, in tandem movement, repeated again and again with each breath.

i lean into my Beloved
He grips me and pulls

I am human again

#illustration #digitalillustration #humanfigure #humanbody #mentalhealth #obsessivecumpulsive #addiction #serpent #healing #breakingaddiction #higherpower #faith #newlife #recovery #celebration #cursebreaker #beauty #hope #meditation #mystic #mysticism #christianmysticism #visionaryart #expressiveart #surrealism #art #drawing #christ #christthehealer
This handsome fellow is about ready for his photo This handsome fellow is about ready for his photo shoot!

Images of stags fighting serpents go back to the ancient Greeks, in the Middle ages it became a potent metaphor as a creature of light combating a creature of deception.

This is the beginning of a new series after some intensive and lovely conversations with my kids over the positive responses to THE GREAT PAPER DRAGON, and the possibilities of exploring larger themes along a similar trail. I'm exploited to explore these paper beasts, and ancient beastiaries as metaphors for larger ideas!

Now I just wait for the Holy Spirit, the sky, and the land to tell me when and where this fella will pose.

#papersculpture #papergolem #papertoy #golem #stag #deer #snake #serpent #mystic #spiritualwarfare #christianmysticism #visionaryart #surrealism #wip #artistmodel #art #creativeprocess #creativelife #beast #beastiary
WINDOW #8: METABOLISM REDUX (after Edvard Munch) WINDOW #8: METABOLISM REDUX
(after Edvard Munch)

So...
I tried to put together some poetry for this image. I tried a couple of times.

but I gave all my poetry to the image.  And all I got left is prose.

I fell in love with a tragic image: Edvard Munch’s METABOLISM (second slide) and wanted to learn from it. But couldn't stay with the tragedy. I needed to dance, the colors were so beautiful. 

So, in the car, just me and the tablet, in various parking lots waiting for various of my teenage kids at various practices. I danced the colors with Eve, Adam, and the Tree of Life, the bones of the liar beneath their feet, and the Holy Spirit the only music they really ever needed. 

It was fun.

#illustration #digitalillustration #humanfigure #humanbody #adam #eve #adamandeve #treeoflife #dance #dancing #danceoflife #celebration #cursebreaker #makebeautiful #beauty #inspiration #hope #creatanyway  #human #figurativeart #meditation #mystic #mysticism #christianmysticism #visionaryart #expressiveart #surrealism #art #drawing
Between my bigger paintings, and especially when a Between my bigger paintings, and especially when a bigger painting gets frustrating, I keep a regular practice of sketching out compositions. Sharpens my skills in structural anatomy, color composition, and creative vision. 

Sometimes they come from modeling session outtakes with my golems. As in this case: a golden golem embraced in the light of the Moon.

They are typically a collector favorite. I do sell prints of my big pieces, but I love to share my original work with people.

#oilsketch #sketch #painting #createanyway #humanfigure #artistmodel #mystic #christianmysticism #visionaryart #figurepainting #golem #automaton #homunculus #moon
I've heard it called: THE HATE STAGE THE HONEYM I've heard it called:
 THE HATE STAGE
  THE HONEYMOON IS OVER
  LOSING FAITH
  THE TERRIBLE TWOS
  THE FOURTH LAP
  THE 25th MILE

Whatever you call it, 
It sucks. 

But I can predict it like the sunset
  It happens with every painting
Just means I got a couple hours, 
  or days, 
till sunrise 😁

#artistlife #artist #creativeprocess #painting #wip #workinprogress #faceplant #facesmack
Say a prayer, things are a bit scary in the studio Say a prayer, things are a bit scary in the studio. Got to make one of those nasty decisions... That's up to painting over a large area that I really like. 😬

#creativeprocess #artistlife #wip #hardchoices
My paintings are sharing wall space with some of m My paintings are sharing wall space with some of my favorite SLO Artists : Hope Kroll, WB Eckert, & Lena Rushing at The BUNKER in SLO! Come see the visual poetry, exploring the topic of Flight, a Journey of Movement. 

The show will be up for the month of August, but there will be an opening celebration on August 11, 5-8 pm. So come celebrate with the artists!

#surrealism #art #artexhibition #slo #sloartists #sloartcommunity #painting #assemblage
Quick warm up painting as I get ready for hardier Quick warm up painting as I get ready for hardier things.

Come back to this image every so many years. A solitary mystic in his platonic cave, single flame, and dancing moths... Each time the painting are drawing changes somewhat. Someday I may just do a show of the singular theme.

#warmupsketch #painting #oilpainting #art #figurativeart #figurepainting #candle #baroque #magicrealism #surrealism #mystic #christianmysticism #baroquelight #butterfly #moth #homunculus #golem #automaton #artistmodel #platoscave
And crazy just showed up 🤪 This is still just And crazy just showed up 🤪

This is still just the color block in. I got a long way to go to get all the ambient light just right. But I'm loving where this is headed!
Work in progress... The king's color block in is Work in progress...

The king's color block in is all done..

Now things are about to get crazy 😁. 

#wip #figurativeart #oilpainting #magicrealism #visionaryart #painting #king #caesar #classicalstatue #humanfigure
After some extensive debates with my creative team After some extensive debates with my creative team (my kids), and bantering over one of my favorite mystic texts, I've started work on a new series. These are just the paper skeletons for three spirit animals. The fully posable so I'll be able to work out the compositions later. 

They will be getting their colored paper skins next. 

#wip #workinprogress #papersculpture #golem #papertoy #dove #stag #lion #artistmanequin #artistmodel #offthegrid #mystic #visionaryart #christianmysticism #artprocess #sculpture
“YHWH settled the man in the Garden of Eden to t “YHWH settled the man in the Garden of Eden to tend it and protect it…” 

“I am a wall, and my chest is a tower, thus I have become in His eyes like one bringing contentment… my own vineyard is mine to give.” 

Translated from Genesis and the Song of Songs

#illustration #digitalillustration #humanfigure #humanbody #human #figurativeart #meditation #mystic #mysticism #christianmysticism #visionaryart #expressiveart #surrealism #art #drawing #creation #creativity #thecreativelife #offthegrid #offthegridliving #livingonland #sustainableliving #farming #homesteading #homesteadliving #selfsufficiency #greenliving #environmentalliving #sustainability #livewithearth
Hey y'all! It's been a long time since I posted. A Hey y'all! It's been a long time since I posted. An intensive season of shows and art fairs and events, back in my studio at last and realized my treasure chest of sketches was almost empty! I'm so glad they're out in the world inspiring others. But this means I'm back to experimenting and hammering out new works.

Excited cuz this usually means there will be a new body of work to emerge from this experimentation. More stuff to come.

If something you like flashes by message or email me to talk about getting one of these for your space. 

#sketch #oilsketch #painting #oilpainting #figurativeart #figurativepainting #humanfigure #dragon #fire #creative #createanyway #artforsale #magicrealism #art #brainstorm #surrealism #expressiveart #visionaryart
I'm heading to an artist talk with the Cal Poly st I'm heading to an artist talk with the Cal Poly student Art club. These two have been my favorite models for years, and they used to travel with me back and forth from Creston to my job down in LA. They've been homebodies for a couple years, but now they get to go back on the road.

I so enjoy working with young artists. Such a wonderful opportunity for exchanging ideas and sharing a creative fire.

#artistmodel #artisttalk #artistlife #golem #android #offthegridliving #offthegrid #homunculus #manequin #arttalk
This Thursday I'm doing an interactive sculpture s This Thursday I'm doing an interactive sculpture storytelling event at a local school. I've got a basic skeletal structure to start the story, and then playing fabric will be used to flesh out the figures while the kids introduce narrative elements.

These events make me think, feel, and dace quickly. A full being event. Whatever happens, happens in front of an audience, and the participants by very nature change the results.

8 hours of clay sculpture and storytelling! I'll be sure to share the results with yall'

#skeleton #armature #sculpture #performanceart #claysculpture #figurativesculpture #wip #lovebravely #storytelling #interactiveartinstallation #interactiveart #creativelife #artevent
I'm getting ready for a 7-hour interactive storyte I'm getting ready for a 7-hour interactive storytelling and sculpture demo at a local school this Thursday.

Which means I got a lot of clay to mix up. It's going to be two 3 ft human figures. And the kiddos are going to be adding narrative elements to the sculpture. This is going to be fun!

#clay #claysculpture #clayfigure #creativelife #artevent #wip
What a weekend! ✨ Thank you to everyone for com What a weekend! ✨

Thank you to everyone for coming out and supporting our brilliant dancers.  Ballet Unbound was a beautiful success and we are so incredibly proud. It’s been a wonderful experience working on Together Alone with @guy_kinnear and @slomacmama and Season’s End with @slomac_daddy 

Thank you @cuestacpac for all of your exceptional assistance and sharing your beautiful theatre with us.

Let’s keep dancing!💫
Reposted from @slomovementarts

#dance #choriography #puppet #puppetry #lifesizedpuppetry #golem
I'm a sucker for do-it-yourself. If I'm going to m I'm a sucker for do-it-yourself. If I'm going to make my own art I might as well make my own sketchbooks too.

Close to finishing a major collaborative project, I need to look to what's going to keep me in the studio once this is done. If I'm lucky I can bypass some of the post event blues.

Thinking this lovely self-made, handmade sketchbook might just do the job.

#diy #bookbinding #offthegrid #offthegridliving #sketchbook #repurposed #gogreen #makeityourself #artistlife #creativelife
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