About Kevin Appel

  • Biography

    Kevin Appel was born in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design [1], New York in 1990 and his MFA from the University of California in 1995. He is a Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies at the University of California Irvine.

    Appel's artwork occupies spaces within and between the practices of abstract painting and architecture; following a trajectory describing the slow and messy dissolution of the structural integrity of the house and home and the psychological effects of such failures. Appel's painted surfaces vacilate between approximations of architectural surfaces and pure paint forming a complex matrix of abstract form. His current paintings are large abstractions painted on large scale print...

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