The human perception of the world has changed over the years. Viewing the world today has certainly changed in the way people view situations in their real life through a similar ways to how they view stories. Videogames, cinema, and television have become some of the main modes of story telling, they use flashing lights and quickly changing conditions that has replace subtle visual perception. The media creates stories where multiple experiences are achieved by rapidly creating only fragments of stories. These fragments are small pieces of one or different stories that have no beginning or a defiant end. My paintings are created as fragments of isolated cinematic scenes about the human experiences. The paintings focus on daily life through ordinary scenes with characters that interact on an intimate level with each other and their environment. The cinematic scenes focus on the reactions of the characters to situations within and outside the viewed picture plane. Using human feelings to drive the paintings such as love, fear and curiosity the scenes of daily life, I focus on their actions. Using implied movement as my vehicle of communication, I create situations about the human experience. The paintings are created in a realistic style to allow the viewer to be able to experience every aspect of the scene. The use of many thin layers of paint to create color develops clarity about the fragmented experience. Applying an equal attention to every aspect of the scene creates a situation where the viewer is forced to watch from outside of the picture plane. Reinforcing the idea that each fragment is part of a larger story where the viewer can speculate to the future of the situation. Ultimately, the paintings are about story telling and how it expresses ideas about our past, present, and future.
Kenneth Donald Browne III Born Hempstead, New York, NY 1982
Education
Master of Fine Arts ( Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY) (2007)
Bachelor of Biological Sciences (Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD) General Biology (2005)
Bachelor of the Arts (Salisbury University) – 2-D studio (2005)
Minor: Chemistry (2005)

Shows

Contemporary American Realism: 2010 (For Wayne Museum of Art) Fort Wayne, IN (2010) upcoming
From the Crowd (Bishop's Stock Gallery) Snow Hill, MD (2010) Solo upcoming
Birthright (Micheal Mut Gallery) New York, NY (2010)
Feed the Kitty (Splattered Columns) New York, NY (2010)
Interior Situations (Aeon Logic Art Gallery) Brooklyn, NY (2009) solo
Winter Group Show (Stripeman Gallery) Brooklyn, NY (2008)
Kings and Queens (Stripeman Gallery) Brooklyn, NY (2008)
Contemporary American Realism: 2008 Biennial (For Wayne Museum of Art) Fort Wayne, IN (2008)
National Small Oil Painting Show (Wichita Center for the Arts) Wichita, KS (2008) Juror Daniel Sprick
National Juried Show at Art Institute and Gallery (AI &G) Salisbury, MD (2007)
New Domestic: Evening at Stuben South gallery (thesis show), Brooklyn, NY (2007)
MFA Show at Pratt Manhattan, New York, (2007)
Qbix Magazine show, Philadelphia, PA (2006)
Art Festival at AI &G (2006 )
Annex Group Show at Annex Gallery, New York, NY (2006)
MFA First Year Show at Stuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2006) MFA Group Show at Stuben Gallery (2005)
Senior Art Show at Fulton Gallery, Salisbury, MD (2005)
Art festival at AI &G (2005)
Regional Show at AI&G gallery (2005)
Open Members Show at AI&G gallery (2005)
Oil painters juried show at the AI&G gallery (2004)
Modern art, juried show at the AI & G gallery (2004)

Awards

Emily Robinson Award (2005)
First place in Regional Show at AI and G gallery (2005)
Third place in Juried oil painters show at AI and G Gallery (2004)
Press
Paintings in feature film "My Berry Nights" (2007)
Qbix fine art Magazine
(2006) Artist Spotlight in "The Daily Times"
(2005) The Daily Times exhibit review (2005)
The Daily Times exhibit review (2004)