My Opinion:J ason Kowalski combines a collectable and accomplished painterly approach (style), great compositional content in time capsule reviews of "Americana". It's worth a trip to the Lew Allen Gallery or an online review of all of. the works. Details below. Jamie Forbes, Publisher Fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com., and SunStormfenartmagazine.com
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September 19 – November 1, 2026
Reception: Saturday, September 19, 4 – 6 PM, public invited
Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday 11:00 – 5:30, Sunday 12:00 – 4:00
My Heart Like a Kick Drum – Will Hutnick and Melissa Marks
Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to present My Heart Like a Kick Drum, a two-person exhibition
featuring work by Will Hutnick and Melissa Marks, artists whose practices channel rhythm, repetition, and
emotional velocity into visually charged, deeply imaginative worlds.
In My Heart Like a Kick Drum, Hutnick and Marks explore the pulse of interior life—its accelerations,
syncopations, and unexpected shifts—through distinct yet complementary visual languages. Hutnick’s
layered abstractions, built through collage, pattern, and improvisational mark-making, generate a sense
of movement that feels both bodily and architectural. His compositions hum with energy, revealing
structures that emerge, dissolve, and reassemble in real time.
Marks’s drawings and paintings push gesture to its expressive edge, transforming line into a living force.
Her forms twist, collide, and unfurl with a kinetic intensity that mirrors emotional states—joy, urgency,
longing, and the restless drive of imagination. Together, her works create a visual rhythm that feels at
once intimate and expansive.
Presented in dialogue, Hutnick and Marks offer two approaches to the idea of the “kick drum”—a
metaphor for the steady beat that underlies human experience. Their works share a commitment to
exuberant mark-making, intuitive process, and the belief that abstraction can hold narrative, memory,
and emotional truth.
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Will Hutnick
Will Hutnick received his MFA from Pratt Institute and his BA from Providence College. He has exhibited
widely, including solo and group exhibitions at McDonough Museum of Art and the Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art, Wassaic Project, and Collar Works among others. Hutnick has been awarded
numerous residencies, including Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center,
Wassaic Project, and Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works. Hutnick’s work has been
featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, New American paintings, Upstate Diary, Chronogram
and ArtNet to name a few. His professional career included dozens of curatorial projects, public speaking
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currently the Director of Artistic Programming at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY.
Melissa Marks
Melissa Marks earned her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA Yale University School of Art, Her
work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, The Drawing Center, The Aldrich Museum of Art, Mass MOCA
and Santa Monica Museum of Art among others. Her work has been featured in El Pais, MoMA
Magazine, The New Yorker and Diario de Almeria to mention a few. Marks is known for her expansive,
improvisational drawing practice and has completed major site-specific commissions for Rutgers Cancer
Institute of New Jersey, Wesleyan University and for private collections.
My Opinion: Transitioning language, physical forms and meaning: In looking up the word ~Selebu~ when connected to Swan as in the artist work I extrapolated the meaning as three fold. A signet becoming a swan, a possible connection to Marie Antoinette?, or a call to change. It appears Selebu~. in certain culture is reflective of.youth and comic books. Having lived through a vast cultural revolution and change I had a hard time connecting the dots of cultural significance and call for anything displayed in the above image. Having seen (liked) watched subway Graffiti Art speed by, Tattoo's meant to call out individuality or connect group belonging , and the vast subterranean landscape of the art world emerge over time to make statements of personal: I am not sure any artistic comic connection to "Bomb-Shell " worth or concept was necessarily displayed the work above of the Artist Julien Ceccaldi. Julien did good"Disney- Esque" job in his painting of what I saw as a ~New but the Same~ version of Cinderella. I did not see the underplay of hope, or the macabre in the work. Words carefully crafted were used to define the image below. Jamie Forbes/Publisher FineArtMagazineblog.blogspot, SunStormFineArtmagazine.com
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Julien Ceccaldi Celebu-Spawn September 18 - October 31, 2026 Opening reception: Friday, September 18, 6-8pm Artist in attendance COOPER COLE is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Julien Ceccaldi. Titled Celebu-Spawn, this marks the artists first show with the gallery as well as his first solo exhibition in Canada. The summer the French Revolution begins, Prince Louis-Joseph dies of tuberculosis at seven years old. He is spared from having to face the wrath of the people, unlike his younger brother Louis-Charles. Separated from his mother, the second Dauphin is psychologically conditioned into becoming a commoner, and forced to sign a false letter accusing her of abuse. The child’s deposition serves as the ultimate pretext for her trial and public execution by guillotine. Months later, he lies in bed malnourished and ill. The ten-year-old boy murmurs to his jailer that he heard beautiful music and saw his mother, and passes away from tuberculosis, as his older sibling did years earlier. Like a budding rose set on fire, his promised life of elegance ends as ashes from the blaze of history. During the autopsy, a royalist physician slices Louis-Charles' heart out in secret, and slips it into his coat pocket while the body is thrown into a mass grave. Preserved in a crystal jar filled with wine, the mummified heart changes hands for two centuries until DNA tests confirm its authenticity in 2000, and it can finally be interred alongside the bones of his brother and parents in the royal crypt. For two hundred years, the heart of the Prince exists as both relic and evidence. What survives is not the prince himself, but the story of splendour cut short. Hidden from the authorities, and passed secretly from thief to archbishop and dukes, the organ calcifies over time as the alcohol evaporates. Protected in its glass casket, the shrivelled heart has become an impenetrable stone full of memories, suspended in time. Julien Ceccaldi (b. 1987, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is an artist whose paintings and drawings depict androgynous characters influenced by Shoujo manga, including The Rose of Versailles, known as Lady Oscar in France and Quebec. Exploring themes of intimacy, aspiration, and freedom, Ceccaldi’s work finds moments of hope and humour within macabre and unsettling situations, such as the quest for love within patriarchal structures. Ceccaldi received a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal, and has exhibited in galleries since 2007. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including MoMA PS1 and MoMA, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Genève, Switzerland; Consortium Museum and Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; amongst many others. His work has also been exhibited extensively at galleries internationally and featured in publications including Artforum and Frieze. Ceccaldi lives and works in New York, USA. Image: Julien Ceccaldi Reign of Terror, 2026 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 x 1.5 inches 121.92 x 91.4 x 3.81 cm Julien Ceccaldi Celebu-Spawn September 18 - October 31, 2026 |
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