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Poseidon Bear

Poseidon Bear

2021 48 x 36" Oil Paint, Painting

Poseidon Bear, 36x48 inches oil on gallery stretched canvas by Kenney Mencher

This is on gallery stretched canvas which means it is stapled on the back and the canvas wraps around the sides.
A portrait of a large muscular gay bear against the sky.

I try to make really well crafted work about the human figure and the human condition. I focus on the kind of beauty for both men and women that is "non-standard."

I'm a voyeur who appreciates the beauty in all people, especially the unusual or non-standard variety.

I've been working in thicker and thicker layers and spending more time each day on each painting. One of the things that I've done recently is that I have decided to work on most paintings for at least 2 to 3 days, letting it dry in between each of these days, so that I can rework the color, drawing and anatomy, and lastly but probably most important thing for me is to build the paint surface up and the texture of the brushwork needs to mimic what it's portraying. For example, in most of the faces that I paint I try to make the angles of the brushwork match the facets of things like cheekbones and eye sockets.

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Kenney Mencher

I was born in Brooklyn February of 1965. During much of my childhood I lived in Brooklyn, the Bronx, upstate NY, Sarasota, Florida, and Manhattan. (Both my mother and father divorced and remarried.) The real hero of my childhood is my older brother Marc who literally changed my diapers, acted as my protector and as my role model. I started to learn to paint and draw when I was six or seven years old and was convinced that I would be an artist from that age on. As a teen at the High School of Art and Design I got my best training in Irwin Greenberg’s class where he taught me how to draw, oil paint and watercolor. I also attended classes at the Cooper Union and Art Students League. My parents threw me out in my senior year of high school, so I earned my GED and worked construction on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It was a rough time but my older brother and his partner Kirk rescued me by inviting me to move with them to Cincinnati, Ohio to live and study. While a college student, I worked in restaurants and painted as much as I could. After a year at the University of Cincinnati, I went back to the Bronx where I finished college at CUNY Lehman. Lehman is a fantastic college. After completing my undergraduate studies, I lived in California and then Ohio completing my two masters’ degrees in Art History and Studio Art. After school I was lucky enough to have dual careers as an exhibiting artist and tenured professor. In 2014 I began to work on paintings with a strong homoerotic content. Despite excellent sales and well received shows, the galleries I worked with wouldn’t show my new queer work, so I’ve been successfully working mainly directly with my collectors. This change has freed me and allowed me to focus on themes and subjects that, in the past, were rejected or resulted in censorship. Things are going great! In 2016, after eighteen years of teaching art history and studio courses, I resigned a tenured professorship to pursue painting full time.

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