Walter King

12/13/52 Painter/Professor Walter King has been making art since 1963 when he decided to be an artist at age 10. He currently teaches drawing, color and illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus Ohio. Walter King is an artists artist. These complex and brooding commentaries on post-modern life, layered in meaning and wry humor, unexpected color and amniotic atmospheres are flawlessly executed yet accessible surfaces whose space and form is both haunting and celebratory. Contemporary media such as auto body primers, wall paper samples, toys, and a range of modern (even industrial) as well as classical painting techniques including collage, spray enamels, oils and acrylics, egg tempera and encaustic are all within his reach. All are manipulated masterfully. His opulent color and somber tonalities are perfectly modern yet almost medieval. At times he seems able to straddle 5 or more centuries of art while at once surprising us by celebrating the highs and exploring the lows of the current human condition-- all the while suggesting that not much has really changed since the days of Altamira. One has only to decide to follow his relentless and multifaceted-- often subterranean thinking through the passages betw...

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2011 Invitational Exhibition, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca NY.

2010 WALTER KING: Midwestern Dialogue (40 year retrospective), Columbus Ohio, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery and Mount Vernon Nazerene University.
2010
7 Landscape Painters: Tina Engels,Walter King,William LaChance,
Damon McArthur,Frank Spidale,Tom Tomc,and Barbara Major-Weaver. The Beverly Art Center, Chicago IL

2009-2010 Illuminating Art: German Village Art League, Archive Gallery, Columbus OH
2009 Argentina Remembered: Reprised Watercolors from Cordoba and Salta Provinces. Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD, Columbus. OH
2009 Art 68 at Coco 68, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Fire River, Summerfield Studios, Columbus OH
2009 Unify, the German Village Art League, Katerina Gallery, Columbus OH

2008 THE SPIRIT MOVES/The Dance: Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus OH

2007 Timothy King and Walter King: Drawings and Watercolors, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery, Cordoba Argentina
2007 Solo Exhibition at the Bar of Modern Art, ground floor galleries. Columbus Ohio

2006 1st ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION: Group show,33 Collective Studio Gallery in the Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL

2005 THE GREENPOINT PAINTINGS: WALTER KING, Three Months ...

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2014 Walter King: Changing Landscapes/Transitional Process, Gallery at Brent Warner Fest Hall, German Village, Columbus OH

2013 Naked: Faculty of the Columbus College of Art and Design. Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus OH
2013 Recent Travels: Watercolors by Walter King, New Faculty Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus OH

2011 Biannual Invitational, State of The Art Gallery, Ithaca NY
2010 WALTER KING: Midwestern Dialogue, Columbus Ohio, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery and Mount Vernon Nazerene University.
2010 7 Landscape Painters: Tina Engels,Walter King,William LaChance,
Damon McArthur,Frank Spidale,Tom Tomc,and Barbara Major-Weaver. The Beverly Art Center, Chicago IL

2009-2010 Illuminating Art: German Village Art League, Archive Gallery, Columbus OH
2009 Argentina Remembered: Reprised Watercolors from Cordoba and Salta Provinces. Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD, Columbus. OH
2009 Art 68 at Coco 68, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Fire River, Summerfield Studios, Columbus OH
2009 Unify, the German Village Art League, Katerina Gallery, Columbus OH

2008 THE SPIRIT MOVES/The Dance: Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus OH

2007 Timothy King and Walter King: Drawings and W...