| Kenn Kotara is one of North Carolina’s leading abstract painters. Working both in acrylics and pastels, Kotara explores and redefines the dialog between line and shape, color and tone, chaos and structure. Born and raised in the Cajun country of Louisiana, Kenn received his Masters from Louisiana Tech University in 1993. Kotara now makes his home in the mountains of North Carolina and has works in the permanent collections of the Asheville Museum of Art, Louisiana State Museum, Wachovia National Bank, and SAS Institute to name a few. |
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“Kenn Kotara offers up pastels like fire, somewhere I the hearth of one’s heart…Highly charged and deeply electric for all the close definition of art as natural essence gone fractal, the efforts of this work flow from one piece to the next in effortless movement”
R.B. Strauss, "Painting the Picture," Around Philly. |
Kenn Kotara, center, with Lance
and Cynthia Landvater
at the May 6, 2005 opening.
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