Kenneth Cobb

Whether it is a portrait or an investigation to our cultural surroundings, I strive to interconnect our cultural environment to what creates us as individuals.

Recently, I ventured away from the figure and worked on a series of 18 landscapes investigating man's interaction with nature in the Twin Tiers area of New York and Pennsylvania. The series of oil paintings is entitled Composure and it portrays the often large industrial and governmental projects in our local community and how it changes our visual landscape.

I have had the opportunity and privilege to study and work underneath artists such as Dennis Wojkiweicz, Patrick Betauldier, and Leslie Adams. And my experiences not only extend from these mentors but also artists I've lived and worked with abroad at Hospitalfield House in Scotland and the Atelier Neo Medici in France. Other influential artists include but are not limited to, Sargent, Holman Hunt, Lord Leighton, Rembrandt, Rubens, Degas, David Mach, and Francis Bacon.

I currently teach Drawing, Painting, and Gallery Management at Mansfield University.

2004 MFA Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL

Awards:

2023
Award, Honorable Mention, 87th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, OH.

2013
First Place. 40th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition. Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center. Wellsboro. PA. 16901.(6/3 - 6/27).

2012
First Place and People’s Choice Award. 39th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition. Gmeiner Art and Cultural Center. Wellsboro, PA. 16901.(6/4 - 6/24).

2003
Allied Artists Award. 67th National Midyear Show. The Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, OH. (7/6-8/24)

2001-02
Hospitalfield House Residential Fellow Graduate Assistantship.

2000
Third Place. Seventh Biennial Regional Arts Competition and Exhibition. University Museum. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). Carbondale, IL (8/29-10/15)

The Ohio Arts Council Award for Drawing. Ohio State Fair: Fine Arts Exhibition. Expo Center. Columbus, OH. (8/4-8/20)

Best of Show. The Toledo Area Artist’s 82nd Annual Exhibition. The Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, OH. (3/3-4/16)

1998
First Place. Best of Ohio Colleges and Universities Show. Wolfe Gallery. Maumee, OH. (3/27-4/10)

1997

Third Place (Painting) and Honorable Mention(Glass) for Cracked Mod...