
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (window), 2012
Salton Sea (window), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (window), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
48" x 40"
Salton Sea (window), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
48" x 40"

Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (half ground), 2012
Salton Sea (half ground), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (half ground), 2012
Acrylic, screen ink, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"
Salton Sea (half ground), 2012
Acrylic, screen ink, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"

Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (dock), 2012
Salton Sea (dock), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (dock), 2012
Oil and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
60" x 48"
Salton Sea (dock), 2012
Oil and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
60" x 48"

Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (room), 2012
Salton Sea (room), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (room), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"
Salton Sea (room), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"

Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (shore), 2012
Salton Sea (shore), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (shore), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
58" x 47"
Salton Sea (shore), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
58" x 47"

Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (red rug), 2012
Salton Sea (red rug), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (red rug), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
60" x 48"
Salton Sea (red rug), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
60" x 48"

Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (room 2), 2012
Salton Sea (room 2), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (room 2), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"
Salton Sea (room 2), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"

Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (heap), 2012
Salton Sea (heap), 2012
Kevin Appel
Salton Sea (heap), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"
Salton Sea (heap), 2012
Acrylic, Oil, and UV cured ink on canvas over panel
77" x 66"
- Born in Los Angeles, CA
- Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
- 1995
- MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 1990
- BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
- 2012
- “Paintings”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
- 2009
- “Drawings”, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
- 2008
- The Suburban, Chicago, IL
- 2007
- Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006
- Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
- 2004
- Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
- 2003
- Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
- 2002
- Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 2001
- Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
- 1999
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1998
- Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Group Exhibitions
- 2013
- “Painting Two: The Thick of It,” Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
- 2011
- “LANY”, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
- “Beta Space: Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
- “Goldmine”, Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
- 2010
- “Small Paintings”, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
- “Haute”, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
- “FAX”, Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
- “FAX”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- 2008
- “Works on Paper”, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2007
- “Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences”, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
- “The Last Show”, Cambridge Heath Road, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
- “Summer Stock”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 2006
- “L.A.NOW”, Galerie Fiat, Paris, France
- 2005
- “New Works on Paper”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA
- 2004
- “Artitecture”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- “From House to Home: Picturing Domesticity”, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
- “Seeing Other People”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, New York, NY
- 2003
- “Variance”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 2002
- “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- “Trespassing: House X Artists”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
- “New Economy Painting”, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
- 2001
- “New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- “It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
- “furor scribendi”, Works on paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- “Works on Paper”, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- “010101: Art in Technological Times”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- “Against Design”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- “Painting at the Edge of the World”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- “Next Wave Prints”, Ellas Fine Art, Allston, MA
- 2000
- “Do you hear what I hear?”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
- “Painting Show”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- “Drawings Spaces”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- “2 x 2”, Architectural Collaborations, San Francisco, CA
- “Shifting Ground; Transformed Views of the American Landscape”, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- “Against Design”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- “Architecture and Memory”, CRG, New York, NY
- 1999
- “Farve Volumen / Color Volume”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klæ defabrik, DK-Odense, Denmark
- “Down to Earth”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
- “DRIVE-BY: New Art from L.A.”, South London Gallery, London, England
- “The Perfect Life: Artifice in L.A. 1999”, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
- “Local Color”, The Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne, CA
- “1999 Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
- “New Paintings from L.A.”, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
- 1998
- “proof.positive.”, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
- “Abstract Painting Once Removed”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
- “Architecture and Inside”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
- “Painting From Another Planet”, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
- “Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design”, Post, Los Angeles, CA
- 1997
- “Inhabited Spaces: Artists Depictions”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
- “In Touch With...”, Galerie + Edition Renate Schrö der, Köln, Germany
- Kevin Appel, Francis Cape, Jorge Pardo, Janice Guy, New York, NY
- “Quartzose: 20 Los Angeles Artists”, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
- “Beau Geste”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- “Ten Los Angeles Artists”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- “Bastards of Modernity”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1996
- “Interiors”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography
- 2013
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- 2011
- Myers, Terry R, Ed. "Painting, Documents of Contemporary Art", MIT Press/Whitechapel Gallery
- Scoats, Christopher, Miles, Christopher and George Melrod, "Goldmine", University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach
- 2009
- Rattemeyer, Christian, “The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Catalogue Raisonné”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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- 2008
- Glasner, Barnara, Smith, Petra and Ursula Schondeling (Eds), “Patterns 2. Design, Art, and Architecture”, Birkhauser Press
- Thornton, Johanna, "Building Art," Home New Zealand, August
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- Hurrell, John, "Wallpapering the Treetops," eyeContact, July 9
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- 2007
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- Ryan, Dinah and Ryan, Paul, "Couterparts, Virginia Beach", Art Papers, November/December
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- 2006
- Sandy, Brooke, “Drawing as Expression: Techniques and Concepts”, Pearson Education, Inc./Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey (textbook)
- Michael, Duncan, "Opening Salvos in L.A." Art in America, No. 10, November: 81 (illustrated)
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- 2005
- Tumlir, Jan, "Kevin Appel: Angles Gallery," Artforum, VOl. XLIII, No. 5, January: 188 (illustrated)
- 2004
- Ostrander, Tobias, "Painting renovations," Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel Mexico City: Museo Tamayo arte contemporaneo (catalogue)
- Vellodi, Kamini, "Drawing Now -- Eight Propositions." contemporary, Issue 61: 59
- "Artists Explore Ideas of Domesticity at MOCA," www.pacificdesigncenter.com (illustrated)
- Hirsch, Faye, "Full-Throttle Abstract." Art in America, Vol. 92, No. 6, June-July: 170, 193
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- 2003
- Vega, Abraham Diaz, "Descripcion sin lugar: una critica a las formas pictorias," Uno Mas Uno, 14 August: 22C (illustrated)
- "En Mexico Kevin Appel, una de las voces mas criticas y progresivas del arte," Sintesis, 13 August: 1C (illustrated)
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- Tumlir, Jan, "Trespassing: Houses x Artists," Frieze, Summer: 120
- Roug, Louise, "Home as art, and vice versa," Los Angeles Times, May 15
- Gilmartin, Wendy, "Home Improvement: Artist Explores final frontier," LA Weekly, April 18-24
- Lord, M.G. "A City Where Locals Are Welcome," The New York Times, April 23
- Frank, Peter, "Art pick of the Week," LA Weekly, April 1
- "TRESPASSING: Houses x Artists," CNN: Design 360, interview by Nina Teggarty, March
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- 2002
- Bhatnager, Priya, Ed. "Focus Painting Part II", Flash Art, November-December
- Olsen, Sherri, "Houses x Artists Challenges Conventional Architectural Wisdom with Idealized Schemes", Architectural Record, November
- Halle, Howard, "Papering the House", Time Out New York, November 7-14
- Smith, Roberta, "Retreat From the Wild Shores of Abstraction", The New York Times, October 18
- Stoetz, David, "Wow House: L.A. Artists Create Semipausible Dwelling", Seattle Weekly, October 2
- "Trespassing: Houses x Artists", Architectural Record, October: 120
- Hinshaw, Mak, "Art and/or Architecture', Architecture, October
- Pastier, John, "BAM Show Takes on Conventions of Space", The Seattle Times, September 22
- Beers, Carole, "The Home As Art", South County Journal, September 1
- "Drawing Now: Eight Propositions", Journal of the Print World, Fall
- "Drawing Now: Eight Propositions", Interview, Acoustiguide Corporation
- Frank, Peter, "Homegrown: Trespassing: Houses x Artists (Part 2)" Angeleno Magazine, July – August: 137
- Young, Paul, "Art House", Angeleno, May/June 2002: 198-199 (illustrated)
- Ollman, Leah, "Scribes of Precision and Obsession", Los Angeles Times, 11 January, 2002: F29, F30
- 2001
- Johnson, Ken, "Kevin Appel", The New York Times, 26 October: E33
- Gioni, Massimiliano, "Spotlight: Painting at the Edge of the World", Flash Art, Volume XXXIV, No. 218, May/June: 147
- Grabner, Michelle, "Painting at the Edge of the World", Frieze, Issue 60, June/July/August: 116 – 117
- Helfand, Glen, "Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction", Architecture, May: 98-99 (illustrated)
- ZOO 08, March, Purple House Ltd., London (illustrated)
- Ross, David A., "et al. 01.01.01: Art in Technological Times", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (catalogue)
- "Painting at the Edge of the World", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (exhibition catalogue)
- 2000
- Daly, Catherine, "Kevin Appel and Carter Potter", Sunday Times, Dublin, Ireland, April 16
- Hartigan, Marianne, "From Memphis to 'Alice in Wonderland'", Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland, April 16
- "Cool Colorists", dside magazine, Issue 54, April
- Plagens, Peter, "Critical Moment: Against Design", Newsweek, 21 February: 58
- Plagens, Peter, "Against Design”, Newsweek Web Exclusive, February 2
- Colpitt, Frances, "Kevin Appel at Angles", Art in America, Volume 88, No. 2, February: 137
- Sozanski, Edward J, "Along the Fuzzy Boundary Between Design and Art", Philadelphia Inquirer, 13 February: A11
- "Against Design", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (exhibition catalogue)
- 1999
- Walsh, Anne, "House X Artists", X-Tra, Volume 3, Number 1: 19 - 20
- “Farve Volumen / Color Volume”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klæ defabrik, DK-Odense, Denmark (exhibition catalogue)
- Farquharson, Alex, "Drive By: New Art from Los Angeles", Frieze 48, September/October : 112-113
- Chung, Karen, "Appel Core", Wallpaper, July/August: 58
- Dobrzynski, Judith H, "In Olympics of Art World, Anything for an Edge”, The New York Times, 17 June: B1-4
- Pagel, David, “Home Vision”, Los Angeles Times, 4 June: F17
- Darwent, Charles, "Vacant and Proud of It", The Independent, 9 May: 6
- "Drive-by: New Art from LA", South London Gallery, Frieze, Issue 46, May 1(Illustrated)
- Rawsthorn, Alice, "LA Story", Vogue, April: 79-82
- Fulcher, Dawn, "Drive-by-New Art from LA", Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 22
- “The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999”, Duke University, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (exhibition catalogue)
- Greenberg, Blue, "Artifice Makes Arty Reality in Duke Exhibit", Durham Herald-Sun, 16 April: 4
- Gora, Susannah, "L.A. in DUMA", Recess, 16 April: 4
- Kauffman, Susan, "Student Curators Bring Home to Duke a Perfect Image of L.A.”, News and Observer, April 13
- Bartolucci, Noah, "Student-Curated Show Takes a Critical Look at LA Myths", Duke Dialogue, April 9
- Curtis, Cathy, "Formal Boundaries Take Some Life From 'Biennial'", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, 2 March: F12
- Curtis, Cathy, "Method, Madness", Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, 24 February: F1-5
- Walsh, Daniella, "Art made for the pure joy of it", Orange County Register, 14 February: 28
- Dubin, Zan, "What It's All About", Los Angeles Times, Orange County Calendar, 6 February: F2-22
- Ben Yehuda, Eron, "Young At Art", Newport Beach/Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, Datebook, 5 February: 2
- "Best Bets Orange County", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Weekend, 4 February: 4R
- 1998
- Dewan, Shaila, "What's So Great About Painting", Houston Press, 29 October - 4 November: 59-60
- Johnson, Patricia C., "Abstract Artists Redraw Boundaries of Painting", Houston Chronicle, 7 October: 1D-3D
- Friis-Hansen, Dana, “Abstract Painting Once Removed”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (exhibition catalogue)
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- Pagel, David, "Visual Stimulation in L.A.: Paintings From Another Planet", Flash Art, XXXI, 201, Summer Issue: 116-220
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- Cotter, Holland, "Painting From Another Planet: New Paintings From Los Angeles", The New York Times, 24 July: E35
- Joyce, Julie, "Kevin Appel," Art Issues 53: 40
- Pagel, David, "Fresh Outlook", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section,13 February: F23
- 1997
- DiMichele, David, "Bastards of Modernity at Angles Gallery," Artweek, April 28.4: 22-23
- Tanner, Marcia, "Ten Los Angeles Artists at Stephen Wirtz Gallery", Artweek, April 28.4: 22
- Hainley, Bruce, "Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery", Artforum, March: 98-99
- Kandel, Susan, "Art Reviews: Modernist Montage", Los Angeles Times, 7 February: F16-F30
Public Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
- Portland Art Museum, Oregon
- The New York Public Library
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Misumi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
- Fogg Museum, Harvard University
- The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado
- Saatchi Collection, London
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
- 2011
- California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists
- Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California