Ken Rush  (Kenneth Rush,Jr.)                                                                             

191 Sackett Street                                                        962 Raymond Road                

Brooklyn, New York    11231                                      Danby, Vermont, 05739

718 643 9596 (H)                                                        802 293 5061

917 992 3173 (Cell)

718 250 0243 (W)

krush@packer.edu                                                       Birthdate  12.28.48

EDUCATION:

·        Syracuse University School of Fine Arts, BFA Cum Laude, Syracuse, N.Y.  1971

·        Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. 1968

·        Sir John Cass College of Art, London, England, 1969-70

·        The Taft School, Watertown, Conn. 1963-67

AWARDS-GRANTS

·        Artist Keyholder program, Lower Eastside Printshop, N.Y.C.; 1988

·        Sabbatical leave grant, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1988

·        "Best in Show" Jury award, Annual Drawing Exhibition, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; 1987

·        Lower Manhattan Cultural Council  (LMCC) Grant for a site specific installation, 1985

·        Artist Material Grant; The Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Mass. 1984

·        Sponsored Exhibition Grant; New York State Council on the Arts, 1983

·        Babbott Chair holder, Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1982-4

·        “Outstanding senior in painting” Hazard-Hiram Gee Fellowship for Travel, Syracuse University School of Art, Syracuse, New York, 1971

·        First Place Award Painting;  New England Boarding School Competition, 1967

·        Visual Arts Prize, The Taft School, Watertown, Ct. 1967

EXHIBITIONS (SOLO)

“Places: Ken Rush” Opalia, Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, New York. May, 2011

The Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont., August,2008

The Mark W. Potter Gallery The Taft School, Watertown CT. May, 2007
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery 41 East 57th Street New York, New York 10022 September, 2006
The Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont., February 2005
The Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont., August, 2001 
Sabbatical Exhibit , Packer Collegiate Institute, 1989
Beside Myself Gallery, Manchester, Vermont 1987
“The Vendor's," A site-specific Polaroid installation in the lobby of 140 Broadway, Funded by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 1985.
Recent Painting, The Palm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1986
Painted Polaroids, The Palm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1985
Polaroid Paintings. The Rome Art Center, Rome, NY 1983

EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)

 “A Sense of Place, Two Artists” 2010, The Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont.

Four Landscape Artists 2009 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY 
Lake Champlain Rediscovered Vermont Artists Celebrate the Lake 2009 A travelling exhibition of 37 Vermont artist. 

 “Loose Borders: Painting mediating Abstraction and Representation February 2006 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY 
20 Years: Anniversary exhibition” Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY 
Landscape 2005: Three Visions: Three person exhibition Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY  January-February 2005 (Reviewed: April 2005 Artnews magazine)
“December” Group show of gallery artists Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, December, 2003
“Alternate Visions: Contemporary Landscape” Six artists. Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, Summer,2003
“Holiday Group Show “ , Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery December, 2002
20/20 Group exhibition, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. November 2002
“Holiday Realities” Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, December 2001
"Bridges of Brooklyn" Brooklyn College Gallery , Curated by Maria Rand, 2001
The Southern Vermont Arts Center: Members' exhibitions; 1995, 1998-2001
“New York City in Children’s Books: Yesterday and Today” New York Public Library, Donnell Library Center, N.Y., N,Y. 1995 (Reviewed N.Y. Times)

 "A Painters’ Brooklyn", Pratt Institute and Pratt Manhattan Center, 1988
"Drawing Annual", The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1987
"The Brooklvn Landscape"Curated by Jackie Battenfield, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklvn, NY 1985
“Art & Ego”, 419 Lafayette Street Gallery, N.Y.,. 1984

 “Art on the Pier” Chicago, Illinois, 1984
“Fragments” The Brooklyn Downtown Cultural Center, 1983
“Karnival”, Kamikaze Club, N.Y.C. 1984
“Terminal,N.Y.” The Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1983

“Alumni Artists” Exhibition/1979” 17 Artists selected from the alumni of Syracuse University. Lubin House Gallery, N.Y.C., 1979

“Boerum Hill Artists”, Community Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.,1978
The Brooklyn Museum Art School Faculty Exhibitions, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1975-79
“Art in Embassy Program"; United States State Department, 1970-79
"A Sense of Place: the artist and the American land." National traveling exhibition curator Alan Gussow, 1974-5

Auction

Christies, New York, 2011: two small oil paintings from 1971 sold at high estimate. From estate of W. V. Kingsland.

COLLECTIONS (public)
Percent for Art - Public art fund purchase, City of New York, 1993
The Polaroid Corporation International Collection; Cambridge, Mass.

 Chubb and Chubb Insurance Co.

NUMEROUS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS

2011  Gander Gallery, Rt. 7a, Manchester Vermont
2000-2009 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, N.Y., N.Y.
1997-99 Furchgott and Sourdiff Gallery, Shelburne, Vermont.
1987-92 Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
1984-7 The Palm Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1982-4 Dobrick Gallery,Chicago, Illinois

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Paintings

Ken Rush: A House Abstracted: Fall, 2009 Aïshti Magazine.
Vermont Life Magazine: Summer 2009:One of four artists featured in an article about Lake Champlain Rediscovered . 
Domino a Conde Nast Magazine; June/July 2008. Painting featured in photo spread of Stephen Elrod's "Buttoned-up Beach House" article. 
Landscape 2005: Three Visions Reviewed April 2005 Artnews magazine
Aperture (issue #103) Summer, 1986
Alumni Artists, Syracuse University Press, 1979

A Sense of Place, The Artist and the American Land. Volume II 1974
Art in Embassies Program: Residence of the United States Ambassador, Paris, France. 1976

CHILDREN’S AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR W0RK
Brickyard Summer by Paul B. Janeczko, Illustrated by Ken Rush, Orchard Books, 1989
Selected: American Library Association:"Best books for the Learning Impaired, 1989”

Some Things Never Change by Kurt Aldag, Illustrated by Ken Rush, Macmillan, 1992 Reviewed: Booklist; School Library Journal; Publisher's Weekly; Brooklyn Heights Press; Smithsonian Magazine.

The Seltzer Man by Ken Rush, Author and illustrator, 1993, Macmillan
Reviewed: Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, New
York Daily News, New York Newsday, Smithsonian Magazine

Friday's Journey by Ken Rush, Author and Illustrator. Orchard Books, 1994 
Reviewed: School Library Journal; Booklist; Horn Book Reviews (Selected as a starred review); The New York Times Book Review.  Selected as a Bank Street "Best Books for Children- 1994".
Anthologized “Books about New York”, 2002

What About Emma  by Ken Rush, Author and Illustrator: Orchard Books, 1996
Reviewed: School Library Journal; Booklist, New Advocate, The Rutland Herald

TEACHING
Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. Visual Arts and Art History Instructor, 1978-present.
Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, New York. Painting Instructor, 1975-79
The Taft School, Watertown, Ct. 1976-78 Visiting artist

Rye Country Day School, Rye, N.Y. 1972-75 Visual arts teacher