Ken Schnall New York (20th / 21st Century) Professional Wrestlers mixed media on paper unsigned. Kenneth Schnall has a BA in Fine Arts education and received a graduate degree in the humanities with a major in art history at Kean University in Union New Jersey, while teaching artistically and intellectually gifted students at a New Jersey secondary school. In 1986 he participated in a School of Visual Arts, summer painting MFA program in Urbino, Italy where he had contact with leading members of the Italian Transvanguardia art movement. In 1995, Ken received Geraldine R Dodge Fellowship fellowship for study in Venice, Italy, where he painted in the Palazzo Fortuny. An NEA grant in 1995 at the Center For Innovative Printmaking, at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, allowed him to work with a master printer/paper maker to produce a limited edition of mono print wall books, some of which were distributed to state art collections. In 1998 Ken received a Geraldine R. Dodge painting fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, Vermont. He also received another Dodge fellowship for painting in1999 at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts residency at Sweet Brier, Virginia. Ken has been exhibiting his artwork since 1962 with a first New York City solo exhibition in 1972. He has exhibited painting work at the Newark Museum, Montclair Museum, and the state museum in Trenton, New Jersey. His hand made books have been exhibited at the Center for Book Arts and Harpers Collins Publishing Company in New York City. His solo exhibition in 2002 at the Synagogue Visual Arts Gallery, in New York City included wall mounted, Arcadian Views-book paintings. In 2005 a major exhibition of his paintings and artists books was mounted at Ball State University, in Muncie Indiana. His last major exhibition in 2006 of wall book paintings was at the Pierro Art Gallery in South Orange, Maplewood, New Jersey. In 2008 his constructed works on paper work was exhibited at the Morris Art Museum in Morristown New Jersey. Recent work was exhibited at The New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, The Center for Book Arts in New York City, and in 2012 at the Legacy exhibition at the New Jersey Print Council, North Bridge Station, New Jersey as well as a featured artist at the Noyes Museum in Atlantic city in 2017. 12" x 11 1/4", 19" x 19" (frame)