Kyle Parker Cunningham · The Works The catalogue

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29 works 2021 clear

202129 works

Oil painting of a small green saguaro cactus enclosed inside a large white glass jar with a lid, rendered with thick impasto brushwork against a pale gray-white background, in a wooden frame.
preservation cactus
Oil on linen portrait of two people wearing matching turquoise flame-shaped masquerade masks, one in a polka-dot orange shirt and dark jacket, the other in a yellow shirt with a red bow tie, against a dark background.
cydney and val
Oil on linen painting of three gray mechanical bison with boxy angular bodies and wind-up key-like legs, grazing on a yellow-ochre plain beneath a warm coral-orange sky.
bison robotics
Gestural oil painting sketch on gray ground showing loosely rendered bison-like forms tumbling from a cliff edge, in white, pink, and dark brushstrokes.
cyclic repetition
Photograph of cottonwoods in full autumn colour, yellow and ochre leaves layered against a bare blue sky, with a young tree standing in open sandy ground beyond.
fall 2021
Carved white marble sculpture in progress on an outdoor workbench: a cluster of joined spheres and rounded masses, one face incised with concentric rings, with mallets and a small carved offcut beside it and a stratified rock cliff behind.
molecule
Oil painting of a large stylized owl facing forward, its enormous dark blue eyes ringed with speckled irises, orange beak and blocky orange feet, wings of layered grey-green feathers over a pale blue body.
owl
Detail view of the oil on canvas painting showing three flat-bodied yellow giraffes with glass dome respirators containing bonsai trees, against a deep blue background.
paper neck giraffes
Oil painting of concentric squares in warm tones of orange, red, yellow, and turquoise blue, radiating inward to a small central square, creating a hypnotic tunnel-like composition in a light wooden frame.
Path Through the Autumn Leaves
Oil painting featuring a grid of concentric circles in yellows, oranges, blues, and reds on a pink background, arranged in rows across a tall vertical composition.
pink and yellow
Oil on gesso panel painting of a gray rhinoceros with a satellite dish antenna mounted on its back, standing on yellow ground against an expressive teal-green background.
rhino radar
Oil painting in progress on an easel showing a young child in a white dress looking directly at the viewer while a woman beside her offers berries, rendered in expressive brushwork against a gray background.
the berry picker
Mixed media painting of a dark brown bear facing the viewer with an intense gaze, rendered in thick expressive brushstrokes of oil, oil stick, acrylic, and latex on canvas, standing on orange-ochre ground against a speckled white background.
the mother bear
Oil on linen painting of a white polar bear perched atop a mushroom-shaped ice formation inside a translucent glass sphere floating in deep blue water, with connected smaller glass bubbles, against an orange and teal sky.
there once was ice here
Tall narrow oil on gesso panel painting with overlapping circles and diamond shapes in warm earth tones of coral, orange, rust, cream, and brown, transitioning from dense clustered forms at top to an open grid pattern below.
transition
Oil on linen painting of a silver-gray octopus swimming in deep blue water, pulling a small coracle boat carrying a gnarled juniper tree with sparse green foliage, against a soft pink and peach sky.
transplanter
Panoramic oil on linen painting of a gray whale towing a red boat carrying a tall green sequoia tree across a lavender sea, beneath a pale gray and white sky.
tugboat whale sequoia
Drypoint intaglio print on Rives BFK paper covered with dozens of hand-painted golden-yellow and amber triangular tree forms in varying sizes, scattered across the composition like an abstract forest, photographed on a bed of pine needles.
balance #4
Drypoint intaglio print of a faceted rocks glass centered on the page, hand-painted with turquoise and mint-green watercolor washes filling the background and pooling at the base.
rocks glass #9
Hand-colored drypoint intaglio print of a standing figure wearing a golden-yellow space helmet and striped collar, connected by a curving hose to an oxygen tank, with a green watercolor ground below.
vacation #2
Intaglio drypoint print in fine line: the outline of a flying saucer tethered by a single taut line to a small hand-coloured orange pumpkin on the ground below, on a lightly scratched grey plate tone. Dated and signed in pencil.
Abduction (Pumpkin) #3
Hand-colored print of the Airlift origami crane carrying a white cloud, set against a vivid yellow gouache background that fills the entire plate area.
airlift #6
Intaglio drypoint print of a tall, slender figure with a solemn face and an origami crane perched atop its head, standing on a warm orange-and-red hand-colored ground line against a pale scratched background.
Blue Corn #2
Drypoint intaglio print of an orange and yellow butterfly perched atop a red sledgehammer, connected by a thin line, centered on textured cream paper with soft plate tone.
butterfly conundrum #5
Drypoint intaglio print of an elephant holding a string with its trunk, flying a small saucer-shaped kite with a yellow watercolor sphere, rendered in black ink on cream paper.
Kite #7
Drypoint intaglio print of a vintage teardrop camper trailer in profile, with black linework showing horizontal siding, a door, window, and tail fin, accented by a bold orange-red stripe across the middle.
Teardrop #9
Drypoint intaglio print of a surreal face in profile with the head sliced into accordion-like vertical segments that fan outward, rendered in black ink on Rives BFK paper with visible plate tone.
Expansion #6
Drypoint intaglio print of a geometric lunar lander module with a dragonfly resting on its dome, standing on four legs above a purple and maroon watercolor ground, on handtorn cream paper.
lunar lander #6
Drypoint intaglio print of a woolly mammoth carrying a broken rainbow in its trunk, with vibrant hand-painted rainbow stripes in red, orange, yellow, green, and blue arcing on either side of the animal.
stole the rainbow #2