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ARTHUR KDAV
KEITH DAVIS
1944 - 2020




"My canvases are a playground for shadow and light"

BACKGROUND

Arthur Kdav was born in Illinios and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned a BA degree from Knox College in Galesburg, IL and continued his education as apprentice to New England painter Edward Fish in Marblehead, MA. Kdav resettled in the Midwest, setting up a studio where he produced etchings, engravings, and serigraph prints. In 1981, he developed a new medium, combining canvas, steel and acrylic paint.  Kdav continues to create these original sculptural paintings in his studio in rural Wisconsin.  He continued to paint until he passed away, he completed his last masterpiece the week of his death. 


Exhibitions

Anderson and Anderson, Minneapolis

Cumberland Gallery, Nashville

Hangup Gallery, Sarasota Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee

Xochipilli Gallery, Detroit

Judith Posner Gallery, Milwaukee

Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta

Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis

Madison Art Center, Madison


Installations

Desert Spindrift, 22 ft x 6 ft, Maricopa County Government Center, Pheonix, AZ

Curved wall piece, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

In the Cusp, Walhalla Dental Building, Rochester, MN

Altarpiece, Epworth Children's Home, St. Louis, MO

Wings Canyon, 28 ft x 12 ft, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, WI

Ipha Kyklos, Iroquois Club, Naperville, IL

Caryopsis, 12 ft x 8 ft, University of Wisconsin Stout, Menomonie, WI

UW Children's Hospital, 4 wall pieces for children's wings, Madison, WI

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