Fri 10/27 @ 5:30-8:30PM
Ken Nevadomi was known as one of Cleveland’s most prominent and respected painters. After working for American Greetings for a couple of years, he started teaching, landing at Cleveland State University in 1978 and retiring as a full professor in 2011.Though his life he continued to paint in diverse figurative styles that drew on surrealism, expressionism and other genres. He died in September at the age of 83.
WOLFS Gallery in Beachwood is mounting a memorial show of his work, which opens Friday October 27 with a celebration of his life. The show will include canvases and drawings that have seldom been on view.
“Nevadomi is described by family, friends, and colleagues as an honest, warm and gruff curmudgeon,” says the gallery’s release. “His remarkable legacy includes hundreds of large-scale paintings and intimate drawings that explore human and social experiences as deeply mysterious and tragically comic, often charged with ardor and amorousness.”
The event is free an open to the public.
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