Kevin Kearney
Kevin M. Kearney is an internationally collected artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who heads a construction consulting firm in Petaluma, California. A graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, he graduated magna cum laude from UC Davis with an MFA. Kevin’s paintings are on view at the Private Galerie Marlene Porsche in Luzern, Switzerland. He currently has a screenplay entitled Girl With Lizard in development that was co-written with Bernhard Schlink, author of the book The Reader, which the Academy-Award winning movie is based on.
About Kevin, Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner
A close friend of William Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner for more than 30 years, Brown’s portrait of Kevin is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Quotes
[On Kevin’s Close Relationship with Brown and Wonner]
“Most of the people that I met from that time are dead. So I mean, I’m probably one of the last people that had a really close relationship with Bill and Paul,” said Kevin. “They didn’t have any kids, and we were pretty close for a long time. They really considered me a son.” -Kevin M. Kearney
[On the Superb Quality of the Breaking The Rules Show]
“The exhibit was comprehensive. It was beautiful. And the strength of both their works together was terrific, and seeing their works together was one of those bittersweet moments” Kevin explained. “I think if they could have seen that, I think that would have really made them happy.” -Kevin M. Kearney
[On Meeting William Theophilus Brown]
[On Brown and Wonner Receiving Recognition Long Due]
Paul Wonner had a retrospective of his work at the SFMOMA in 1981, but William Theophilus Brown’s work was never recognized with a museum show of that magnitude during his lifetime.
“A lot of the earlier works from the 1960s, I had never seen them except occasionally. Maybe you’d see one in a show or something. Some of these paintings are just strikingly beautiful.” -Kevin M. Kearney
Download the press release
San Francisco Area Artist Kevin Kearney Lends Paintings And Recollections To “Breaking The Rules” Exhibit