Introduced to the landscape and plein-air painting at the age of six during an artists retreat in Ballinskelligs, Ireland, I have always loved the landscape in all of its splendor. Attempting to recreate faded memories and create new ones that haven't happened yet, I have begun to use a midwestern landscape as a tool for recollection.
Inspired by realist and surrealist artists such as Andrew Wyeth, Robert Vickery, and Edward Hopper, my figures transposed into the landscapes I create are forced to feel out of place, as if taken from one land and placed into another. Pulling from memories and nostalgic ideas from my past, as with the fleeting nature of life itself, I litter these landscapes with religious-based undertones and a humorous one-liner.
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Born in Fairview Park, Ohio in 1992, Palencar currently resides in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and has received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Kent State University in the spring of 2018 with a major in painting and drawing.
Graduating from the University of Akron in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Palencar was awarded the top-honor scholarship at the Myers School of Art as well as receiving an additional private scholarship for his watercolors through the Frederic Whitaker and Eileen Monaghan Whitaker Foundation.
Having exhibited in galleries across Northeast Ohio and collectors ranging from across the globe, Palencar currently teaches foundation drawing and life drawing courses at The University of Akron as well as several painting and drawing courses at the Canton Museum of Art. As with his expanding teaching career, Kit also teaches an art appreciation course through the Correctional Education Department at Ashland University.
