Twelve years into his painting career, Kenneth Peloke returns to the roots of his practice—his process. In the early days, he approached imagery through exploration, often erasing entire pieces before starting over on the same project. “I’m recalling the feeling I got back then with the textures and all the imperfections that happen when marks get pushed into the different layers of paint,” he says. His latest paintings find him working in multiple layers with portions erased—effects reminiscent of those early days.
Then as now, his paintings emerge as if worn by age, vintage in their materiality, weathered by wisdom. As is true of the artist: having learned so much from his gallery work, such a return to process feels true to his creative core. Which is true of his subjects too: his equine characters evoke history and memory.
