About

Joseph Kinnebrew is an internationally acknowledged sculptor, painter, lecturer, inventor and writer. He has been described by several in the art world as an eccentric creative genius — or, as New York Times critic, William Zimmer, wrote, “an 800-pound gorilla, impossible to ignore.”

He began his career creating monumental public sculpture that earned him numerous grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, several years running. Over time, he began to develop both a passion and skill for painting on canvas. His body of two-dimensional work has followed two broad paths; surreal and botanical. To this day, he continues to explore the curiosity and mystery inherent in each subject. His singular vocabulary of symbol, form and composition ties together decades of work and evolving inquiry into things like post-modernism and the Singularity.

Indeed, sculpture has always been close at hand. Over a long career, Kinnebrew has built extraordinary bodies of work in fabricated metal (large-scale), cast-iron (medium-scale), bronze (small-scale) and most recently, found object assemblages (micro-scale). Each collection displays unique character, but also reflects a consistent set of artistic principles (narrative, surreality, whimsy, ambiguity, sensuality) — which taken together might easily describe Kinnebrew’s work as a whole.

Kinnebrew is represented in major museum collections, as well as private collections all over the world. At 73, Kinnebrew continues to produce work with energy that those half his age can only envy. With unrelenting pace and output of creativity, Kinnebrew rushes forward often leaving others with only a glimpse of what their futures may be….He races on having already seen it.