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Kerry Rowland-Avrech originated from the Venice art scene in Southern California. One of the great art towns, Rowland-Avrech was one of the earliest supporters of the Venice Art Walk. Rowland-Avrech participated for many years in the Art Walk while a resident of Venice. A seasoned veteran of large format mural painting, and part of the Davis Mural Team, she created one of the first murals recently installed in Davis. It is located on the historically designated Anderson Bank Building on the corner of G and 2nd Street, and is part of the Transmedia Art Walk. Since that commission, Rowland-Avrech created two additional murals, and collaborated on twelve others, as well as receiving the commission from the City of Davis Civic Arts Commission to restore Terry Buckendorf’s “Columbus Café Mural”, created in 1977. In the summer of 2013, she and several members of the Davis Mural Team created their largest mural yet, “Cycling through Time” for the Davis Odd Fellows.
Her current works include oil or acrylic mediums,depending upon the result she is looking for in the artwork. From landscape, color field or surrealistic images, she strives to create deeply personal and internal dialogues within them. Earlier works resemble nothing more than color field paintings, and for those she focused on the interaction of the colors and color harmonies to achieve movement and depth without symbolism or narrative. At other times, she is creating works that are more akin to Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, and the images that were of somewhat tortuous or nocturnal landscapes and mythological pieces, have transformed into abstracted Californian landscapes and introspective dialogs.
As an eminent contemporary female painter in California, Rowland-Avrech’s work shows a vast depth of understanding of American Art. As a California native from Venice Beach, she grew up with the culture of the sixties: civil rights, activism, abstractionism, and so much more. However, while the artists and movements from the sixties are the main influence for her work, her paintings address the viewer in a way that is deeply engrained in the present
Kerry Rowland-Avrech originated from the Venice art scene in Southern California. One of the great art towns, Rowland-Avrech was one of the earliest supporters of the Venice Art Walk. Rowland-Avrech participated for many years in the Art Walk while a resident of Venice. A seasoned veteran of large format mural painting, and part of the Davis Mural Team, she created one of the first murals recently installed in Davis. It is located on the historically designated Anderson Bank Building on the corner of G and 2nd Street, and is part of the Transmedia Art Walk. Since that commission, Rowland-Avrech created two additional murals, and collaborated on twelve others, as well as receiving the commission from the City of Davis Civic Arts Commission to restore Terry Buckendorf’s “Columbus Café Mural”, created in 1977. In the summer of 2013, she and several members of the Davis Mural Team created their largest mural yet, “Cycling through Time” for the Davis Odd Fellows.
Her exhibition “Fire Series” at the John Natsoulas Gallery was a resolute success. Her painting, “U-Turn” was accepted into the Triton Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection in December, 2012, and will be shown in 2013/14 as part of a community build and lecture series in Santa Clara, California. She is schedule for another exhibition at the John Natsoulas Gallery in December, 2013.
Rowland-Avrech is still currently a member of the Davis Mural Team, a group of fine artists dedicated to the enhancement of the newly created Arts and Entertainment District of Davis, California. Rowland-Avrech’s June 2012 exhibition at the John Natsoulas Gallery sold out, and she was selected to be the featured artist at the Gallery Strada, a privately run gallery by a former board member of the Fresno Art Museum, in September, 2012.
Rowland-Avrech’s artistic commitment to the community has been long and ardent. She has participated in the Cultural Action Committee events, is a former board member of the Vacaville Art League, and formerly Vice-President of the Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons – Sacramento Fine Arts Center. This makes her one of the most outspoken advocates for the arts in the Davis Committee groups of which she is a member. Rowland-Avrech was selected as the Artist in Residence at the Log Cabin Gallery and Studio in 2011. Rowland-Avrech lives and maintains her studios in Davis, California.
Nationally published author Kevin Bruce mentioned her in the forward of the Davis Mural Team catalog with the following statement – “…my personal favorite of the Transmedia Art Walk. It is entitled “Splash” and is by the muralist Kerry Rowland-Avrech” While this engaging mural can be read on many levels to me, the central overriding them is simply and profoundly JOY; a commodity that is in short supply these days. Thank you for your colorful and joyful mural, Kerry.”
Internationally known artist, Guy Diehl commented that “Kerry Rowland-Avrech has an incredible sense of color and the ability to blend and create unique forms of color field paintings”
Frequent juried show judge, Kara Castro commented upon Rowland-Avrech’s receiving the Award of Excellence at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center “Animal House Show”, in Carmichael California: “Here is an artist who was just going to get better and better”.
Work featured "Ophelia"
John Natsoulas Center for the Art
521 First Street, Davis, Ca 95618
