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wilkinsongallery.com Kevin Appel’s paintings for the past ten years have addressed the relationship between physical space, architecture, and the painted image. Currently, this interest has turned toward representing an illogical relationship between an iconic architectural representation of a home and its natural surroundings.
findarticles.com - Kevin Appel at Angles Art in America by Frances Colpitt Kevin Appel transformed the main gallery space at Angles into an airy, light-filled modern domestic interior through the magic of traditional paint on canvas and linear perspective. Four paintings (all 1999), one on each of the gallery's four walls, depict views from a skylit interior courtyard of an imaginary house designed by the artist and resembling the Case Study houses built in Los Angeles in the 1940s and '50s.
query.nytimes.com - Art in review; Kevin Appel by Ken Johnson With a subtly ironic twist, Kevin Appel paints sleek white-on-white pictures of a Modernist architectural heaven. On large horizontal canvases, the young Los Angeles-based artist organizes white and off-white parallelograms and vertical white bands. These planes float disconnectedly while suggesting the walls, floors and columns of some ultimately purified modern interior, a Mies ghost world.