Walter Wickiser Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition of Ken Kaminski, Recovery Paintings, from January 31 - February 25, 2015.

"Ken Kaminski’s paintings explode with texture and color. Reds and yellows slash across blue-black and purple grounds. Even the surface of the paint appears flayed. At first, these compelling works seem descended from the Abstract Expressionist tradition of painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Then another dimension emerges. The thickly impastoed rectangles, parallelograms and squares coalesce, and we realize with a shock that we’re looking at the facades of two buildings we remember only too well.

Like the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who explored ancient symbols and pictographs in their paintings, Kaminski has found in the Twin Towers a resonant archetype. Modern and steely though these monoliths were, the artist imbues them with an almost Biblical power." - Mona Molarsky, a writer for ARTnews, City Arts, The Nation, and many other publications.